IC 4382
IC 4382
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4382 as it looked roughly 440 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 5008Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5498Elliptical8.1 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4345Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5498Elliptical8.1 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4345Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral28 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).