NGC 4275
NGC 4275
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
108 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 108 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4275 as it looked roughly 108 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
IC 777Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4158Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4158Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral21 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).