NGC 4584
NGC 4584
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
81 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 81 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4584 as it looked roughly 81 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 3586Lenticular970,000 ly
apartNGC 4640Lenticular2.1 million ly
apartNGC 4606Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 3720Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 3443Elliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 4579Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4640Lenticular2.1 million ly
apartNGC 4606Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 3720Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 3443Elliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 4579Barred spiral3.4 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).