IC 4360
IC 4360
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
531 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 531 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4360 as it looked roughly 531 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
IC 4368Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 4372Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy55 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral79 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4372Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 4354Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy55 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral79 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).