NGC 4067

NGC 4067

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4067 as it looked roughly 113 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 4078Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
IC 3063Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4200Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4193Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
IC 3021Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
IC 776Barred spiral8.4 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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