NGC 4493

NGC 4493

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
322 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 322 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4493 as it looked roughly 322 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 4541Spiral9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4333Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 4326Spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 4077Lenticular39 million ly
apart
NGC 4432Spiral39 million ly
apart
NGC 4075Lenticular41 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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