IC 4501
IC 4501
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4501 as it looked roughly 154 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 5766Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 5791Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1077Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1081Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5791Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1077Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1081Lenticular16 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).