NGC 4383

NGC 4383

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4383 as it looked roughly 80 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 3369Elliptical1.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4405Lenticular1.3 million ly
apart
IC 3391Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
IC 3392Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
IC 3386Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4502Spiral5.0 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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