NGC 4453 NED02
NGC 4453 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
1.2 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
17.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.2 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4453 NED02 as it looked roughly 1.2 billion 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 3418Irregular130 million ly
apartIC 3246Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 3447Spiral140 million ly
apartIC 3625Lenticular170 million ly
apartIC 3422Spiral170 million ly
apartIC 3058Spiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3246Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 3447Spiral140 million ly
apartIC 3625Lenticular170 million ly
apartIC 3422Spiral170 million ly
apartIC 3058Spiral180 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).