IC 4889
IC 4889
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4889 as it looked roughly 120 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 4888Elliptical4.4 million ly
apartNGC 6889Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4837Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4839Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6887Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4821Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6889Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4837Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4839Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6887Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4821Spiral13 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).