IC 4884
IC 4884
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4884 as it looked roughly 211 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 4851Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 4883Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4857Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6812Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4935Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4852Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4883Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4857Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6812Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4935Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4852Barred spiral12 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).