NGC 4520
NGC 4520
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
360 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 360 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4520 as it looked roughly 360 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 4422Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 4285Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 4726Galaxy50 million ly
apartNGC 4727Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 855Galaxy60 million ly
apartNGC 4493Elliptical61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4285Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 4726Galaxy50 million ly
apartNGC 4727Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 855Galaxy60 million ly
apartNGC 4493Elliptical61 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).