IC 4914
IC 4914
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4914 as it looked roughly 348 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 4909Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 6845DLenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 4894Galaxy47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6845DLenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 6845CLenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 6845BBarred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 4923Lenticular39 million ly
apartIC 4894Galaxy47 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).