NGC 4585
NGC 4585
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4585 as it looked roughly 340 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 3587Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartIC 3494Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 4559ASpiral11 million ly
apartIC 3560Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4563Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3556Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3494Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 4559ASpiral11 million ly
apartIC 3560Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4563Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3556Lenticular13 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).