NGC 4410A

NGC 4410A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4410A as it looked roughly 350 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 4410CLenticular2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4410BLenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4465Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
IC 3170Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 789Lenticular9.9 million ly
apart
IC 3151Barred spiral11 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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