IC 4570

IC 4570

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
448 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 448 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4570 as it looked roughly 448 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 4580Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
IC 4574Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
IC 4569Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
IC 4568Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4572Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 4581Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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