NGC 4975
NGC 4975
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
251 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 251 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4975 as it looked roughly 251 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 865Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4843Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 849Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 850Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4218Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4843Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 849Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 850Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4218Barred spiral25 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).