NGC 4566
NGC 4566
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4566 as it looked roughly 250 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 4686Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4644Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4695Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 830Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 4669Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4675Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4644Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4695Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 830Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 4669Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4675Barred spiral27 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).