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
apartNGC 6812Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 4883Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4848Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4884Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6812Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 4883Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4848Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4884Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral14 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).