NGC 4465
NGC 4465
NGC 4465 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 347 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 26,000 ly, about 26% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 347 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
347 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
26k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 347 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4465 as it looked roughly 347 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 789Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular10 million ly
apartIC 3271Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3150Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4410CLenticular7.5 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular10 million ly
apartIC 3271Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3150Barred spiral15 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).