IC 4525
IC 4525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
459 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 459 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4525 as it looked roughly 459 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 4524Barred spiral840,000 ly
apartIC 4521Spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 4514Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4521Spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 4514Spiral44 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).