NGC 4702
NGC 4702
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
279 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 279 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4702 as it looked roughly 279 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 4840Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartNGC 4850Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 3946Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4849Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4892Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 3968Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4850Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 3946Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4849Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4892Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 3968Elliptical13 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).