NGC 4363

NGC 4363

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
15k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4363 as it looked roughly 66 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 4319Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4648Elliptical3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4133Spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4331Irregular6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3879Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4750Spiral9.6 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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