IC 4919
IC 4919
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4919 as it looked roughly 200 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 4952Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 6848Spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4950Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6855Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 6862Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6848Spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 4950Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 6855Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 6862Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 6867Barred spiral8.6 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).