NGC 4711

NGC 4711

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4711 as it looked roughly 192 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 4687Elliptical7.1 million ly
apart
IC 3852Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 3862Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4846Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3795Elliptical24 million ly
apart
IC 3892Lenticular28 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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