NGC 4963

NGC 4963

NGC 4963 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 333 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,150 km/s.

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
7,150 km/s
receding (RC3)

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.

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NGC 5093Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 5083Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 3895Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 3921Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3897Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 3758Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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