NGC 4696C

NGC 4696C

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
167 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 167 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4696C as it looked roughly 167 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 4683Elliptical2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4767BBarred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4832Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4603ABarred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4507Spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4706Lenticular8.4 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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