IC 4364
IC 4364
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4364 as it looked roughly 458 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 4372Lenticular55 million ly
apartNGC 5442Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 924Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 915Elliptical72 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5442Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 924Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 985Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 915Elliptical72 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).