NGC 4704
NGC 4704
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4704 as it looked roughly 381 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 3850Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4100Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3920Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 3835Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4165Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4100Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3920Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 3835Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4165Spiral24 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).