NGC 4500
NGC 4500
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4500 as it looked roughly 154 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 3958Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4149Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4290Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3894Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4149Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4290Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3894Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral16 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).