IC 804

IC 804

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
136 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 136 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 804 as it looked roughly 136 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 4671Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4628Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4626Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4690Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 4428Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4433Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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