NGC 4177

NGC 4177

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4177 as it looked roughly 192 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 4114Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4188Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4263Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
IC 766Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 4329Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 4279Lenticular16 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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