IC 4782
IC 4782
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
134 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
16k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 134 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4782 as it looked roughly 134 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 6707Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 4796Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartIC 4837ABarred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4821Spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4797Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4839Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4796Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartIC 4837ABarred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4821Spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4797Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4839Barred spiral10 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).