IC 4937
IC 4937
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4937 as it looked roughly 222 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
NGC 6850Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartIC 4963Spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 4935Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4963Spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 4935Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4980Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral14 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).