NGC 4373B
NGC 4373B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
149 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 149 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4373B as it looked roughly 149 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 3290Lenticular5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4553Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603CLenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4373Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartNGC 4373ALenticular9.7 million ly
apartNGC 4645ALenticular10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4553Lenticular6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603CLenticular8.5 million ly
apartNGC 4373Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartNGC 4373ALenticular9.7 million ly
apartNGC 4645ALenticular10 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).