IC 4390
IC 4390
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
98 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 98 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4390 as it looked roughly 98 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 4441Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4362Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5483Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral18 million ly
apartIC 4402Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4362Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5483Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral18 million ly
apartIC 4402Barred spiral21 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).