NGC 4555

NGC 4555

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
310 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 310 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4555 as it looked roughly 310 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 3590Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
IC 3618Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
IC 3644Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
IC 3498Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
IC 3646Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apart
IC 3439Barred spiral7.8 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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