NGC 4734
NGC 4734
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4734 as it looked roughly 350 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 817Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 816Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 3690Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 4465Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5027Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 816Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 3690Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 4465Spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5027Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3608Barred spiral40 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).