IC 4377
IC 4377
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4377 as it looked roughly 122 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 5612Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 4555Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral14 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4555Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5967ASpiral14 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral18 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).