IC 4974 NED01
IC 4974 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
531 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 531 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4974 NED01 as it looked roughly 531 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 4976Spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 4973Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5010Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular57 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4973Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 5010Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular57 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral57 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).