IC 4555
IC 4555
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4555 as it looked roughly 126 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 5967ASpiral6.4 million ly
apartIC 4545Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4545Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 5612Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 4522Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5967Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4608Barred spiral13 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).