IC 4848
IC 4848
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4848 as it looked roughly 224 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 4835Spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 4857Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4818Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4857Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4818Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4851Barred spiral16 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).