IC 4995
IC 4995
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4995 as it looked roughly 225 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 6937Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5001Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5002Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6850Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5001Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 5002Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 6850Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 6935Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral15 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).