IC 4595
IC 4595
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4595 as it looked roughly 160 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 5938Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4584Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4585Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 5833Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6392Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4584Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4585Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 5833Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 6392Spiral25 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).