IC 4421
IC 4421
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
169 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 169 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4421 as it looked roughly 169 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 4451Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4367Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4388Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4453Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5397Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 5419Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4367Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4388Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4453Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 5397Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 5419Elliptical31 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).