IC 4932

IC 4932

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
657 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
159k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 657 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4932 as it looked roughly 657 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 4947Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 4917Lenticular36 million ly
apart
IC 4907Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
IC 4915Elliptical61 million ly
apart
IC 4984Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
IC 4925Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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