NGC 4133

NGC 4133

NGC 4133 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 61 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 30,000 ly, about 30% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,292 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
61 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
1,292 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 61 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4133 as it looked roughly 61 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 4319Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4363Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3403Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3879Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4648Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3622Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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