NGC 4313

NGC 4313

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4313 as it looked roughly 67 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 3192Elliptical620,000 ly
apart
IC 3101Elliptical1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4330Spiral1.6 million ly
apart
IC 3349Elliptical2.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4478Elliptical2.8 million ly
apart
IC 3077Spiral3.8 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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