IC 4916
IC 4916
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4916 as it looked roughly 230 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 4995Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 6850Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4956Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6850Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4956Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 4882Barred spiral25 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).