NGC 4453 NED01
NGC 4453 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
553 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 553 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4453 NED01 as it looked roughly 553 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 3153Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 3128ASpiral56 million ly
apartIC 3068Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 3731Barred spiral69 million ly
apartIC 3173Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 3109Barred spiral85 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3128ASpiral56 million ly
apartIC 3068Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 3731Barred spiral69 million ly
apartIC 3173Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 3109Barred spiral85 million ly
apart
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).