NGC 4063
NGC 4063
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4063 as it looked roughly 229 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 4045ALenticular12 million ly
apartIC 784Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 4538Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 4139Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 4496BBarred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 716Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 784Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 4538Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 4139Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 4496BBarred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 716Barred spiral36 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).