IC 4849

IC 4849

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4849 as it looked roughly 432 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 4953Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 4815Lenticular43 million ly
apart
IC 4896Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
IC 4957Barred spiral75 million ly
apart
IC 5031Galaxy76 million ly
apart
IC 4823Lenticular84 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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