IC 4395
IC 4395
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
511 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
172k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 511 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4395 as it looked roughly 511 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 4399Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 4405Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5594Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4418Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4396Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4405Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5594Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4418Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4396Spiral29 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).