IC 4528
IC 4528
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4528 as it looked roughly 363 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 5818Lenticular6.3 million ly
apartNGC 5835Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1074Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5830Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5835Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5767Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1074Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5720Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 5830Barred spiral32 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).