NGC 4903
NGC 4903
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4903 as it looked roughly 223 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 3986Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 4905Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5126Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5051Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5048Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4251Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4905Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5126Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5051Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5048Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4251Barred spiral27 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).