NGC 4307A

NGC 4307A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4307A as it looked roughly 272 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 3156Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
IC 3175Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
IC 3069Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
IC 3188Spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 3136Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 3060Spiral19 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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