IC 4952
IC 4952
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4952 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 4950Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 4919Spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 6862Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 6855Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6848Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy6.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4919Spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 6862Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 6855Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6848Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4978Galaxy6.4 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).