NGC 4433

NGC 4433

NGC 4433 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 140 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 81,000 ly, about 81% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,942 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
2,942 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4433 as it looked roughly 140 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 4428Spiral1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4671Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 4628Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 804Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4626Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 4690Elliptical22 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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