NGC 4333

NGC 4333

NGC 4333 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 327 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,002 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
7,002 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4333 as it looked roughly 327 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 4326Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
IC 3271Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 4360Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 3150Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 4360BSpiral21 million ly
apart
IC 789Lenticular22 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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