NGC 4745
NGC 4745
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
341 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 341 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4745 as it looked roughly 341 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 4839Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4842AElliptical8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4842BElliptical8.9 million ly
apartIC 837Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3913Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3900Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4842AElliptical8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4842BElliptical8.9 million ly
apartIC 837Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3913Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3900Lenticular12 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).