IC 4473 NED01
IC 4473 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
516 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 516 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4473 NED01 as it looked roughly 516 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 4473 NED02Barred spiral980,000 ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4463Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1058Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4443Barred spiral39 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).