NGC 4827

NGC 4827

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4827 as it looked roughly 354 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 3913Spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4787Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
IC 835Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
IC 3949Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4853Elliptical5.9 million ly
apart
IC 3955Lenticular7.0 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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