IC 4610
IC 4610
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4610 as it looked roughly 440 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 4612Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 6166Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6160Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6195Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6166Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 6160Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 6137Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6195Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 6180Elliptical22 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).