IC 4882

IC 4882

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4882 as it looked roughly 219 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 4881Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 6812Lenticular8.1 million ly
apart
IC 4883Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4848Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4884Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 4937Barred spiral14 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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