IC 4635

IC 4635

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
137 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 137 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4635 as it looked roughly 137 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 4633Spiral840,000 ly
apart
IC 4618Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
IC 4608Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 5967Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5967ASpiral15 million ly
apart
IC 4555Barred spiral15 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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