IC 4576
IC 4576
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
314 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 314 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4576 as it looked roughly 314 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 4575Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4577Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1138Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 4573Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5991Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4577Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 1138Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 4573Spiral19 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).