NGC 4514
NGC 4514
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
376 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 376 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4514 as it looked roughly 376 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 3402Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartIC 3210Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 4558Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4559BBarred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3263Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3243Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3210Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 4558Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4559BBarred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3263Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3243Barred spiral21 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).