NGC 4725
NGC 4725
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
56 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
159k ly
across
9.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 56 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4725 as it looked roughly 56 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 4747Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 3571Irregular3.2 million ly
apartNeedle GalaxyBarred spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4525Spiral6.0 million ly
apartIC 3334Irregular6.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3571Irregular3.2 million ly
apartNeedle GalaxyBarred spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4525Spiral6.0 million ly
apartIC 3334Irregular6.1 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).