IC 4866
IC 4866
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4866 as it looked roughly 240 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 4878Galaxy13 million ly
apartIC 4861Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy18 million ly
apartNGC 6733Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4880Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4794Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4861Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4803Galaxy18 million ly
apartNGC 6733Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4880Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4794Elliptical21 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).