IC 4483
IC 4483
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4483 as it looked roughly 418 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 1036Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1037Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral25 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).