IC 4906
IC 4906
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
175 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 175 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4906 as it looked roughly 175 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 4939Spiral4.2 million ly
apartIC 4938Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4936Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6776ABarred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6782Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4938Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4936Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6769Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6776ABarred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6782Spiral15 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).