IC 4990
IC 4990
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
606 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 606 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4990 as it looked roughly 606 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 5051Spiral62 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral63 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5075Spiral67 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral78 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4903Barred spiral63 million ly
apartIC 5048Barred spiral64 million ly
apartIC 5075Spiral67 million ly
apartIC 5099Spiral71 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral78 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).