IC 4957
IC 4957
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4957 as it looked roughly 458 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 4975Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 4911Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4953Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 5034Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5035Spiral66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4911Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4953Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 5034Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5035Spiral66 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).