IC 4351
IC 4351
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
238k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4351 as it looked roughly 125 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 5464Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 5494Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4310Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5494Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4323Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4391Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4393Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4310Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).