IC 4986
IC 4986
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABd
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4986 as it looked roughly 102 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 4901Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 6990Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6889Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4888Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6990Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6889Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4888Elliptical17 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).