NGC 4963
NGC 4963
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
333 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 333 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4963 as it looked roughly 333 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 5093Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5083Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3758Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5083Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3758Elliptical23 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).