IC 4482
IC 4482
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4482 as it looked roughly 299 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
NGC 5760Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1075Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1076Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1075Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1076Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4469Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1086Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 1096Lenticular36 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).