NGC 4722
NGC 4722
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4722 as it looked roughly 60 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 4723Spiral730,000 ly
apartNGC 4742Elliptical3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4781Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4784Lenticular3.2 million ly
apartNGC 4856Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4790Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4742Elliptical3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4781Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4784Lenticular3.2 million ly
apartNGC 4856Lenticular3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4790Barred spiral4.9 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).