IC 4844
IC 4844
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
163 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 163 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4844 as it looked roughly 163 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 6780Spiral1.9 million ly
apartIC 4832Spiral3.0 million ly
apartIC 4826Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 6758Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 6799Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 4829Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4832Spiral3.0 million ly
apartIC 4826Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 6758Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 6799Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 4829Barred spiral7.3 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).