NGC 4300
NGC 4300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4300 as it looked roughly 106 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 4292Lenticular1.5 million ly
apartIC 3155Lenticular1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4223Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4273Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4412Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4270Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3155Lenticular1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4223Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4273Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4412Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4270Lenticular3.7 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).