NGC 4632
NGC 4632
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4632 as it looked roughly 80 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 4533Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4668Spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4536Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4581Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartNGC 4409Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 4599Lenticular6.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4668Spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4536Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4581Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartNGC 4409Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 4599Lenticular6.8 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).