IC 4443
IC 4443
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4443 as it looked roughly 550 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 1034Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED02Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral52 million ly
apartNGC 5748Barred spiral71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4463Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED02Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral52 million ly
apartNGC 5748Barred spiral71 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).