NGC 4233

NGC 4233

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4233 as it looked roughly 107 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 4180Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4223Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4235Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
IC 3155Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4300Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4270Lenticular5.1 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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