IC 4764
IC 4764
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
172 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 172 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4764 as it looked roughly 172 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 6706Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartIC 4753Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 4767Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartIC 4828Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4833Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4753Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 4767Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartIC 4828Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4833Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral12 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).