IC 4497
IC 4497
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
171 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 171 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4497 as it looked roughly 171 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 5735Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 5703Spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5657Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5703Spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 5639Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5653Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5672Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5657Barred spiral17 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).