NGC 4475

NGC 4475

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
344 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 344 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4475 as it looked roughly 344 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 3494Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
IC 3262Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
IC 3556Lenticular8.4 million ly
apart
IC 3299Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4408Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4563Elliptical9.0 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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