IC 4970
IC 4970
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4970 as it looked roughly 221 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 6872Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartIC 4971Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4887Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4862Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4971Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4887Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4860Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4862Barred spiral23 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).