NGC 4671

NGC 4671

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
137 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 137 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4671 as it looked roughly 137 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 4628Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
IC 804Lenticular5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4626Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4428Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4433Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4890Spiral12 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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