NGC 4496B
NGC 4496B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
211 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 211 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4496B as it looked roughly 211 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 4538Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4334Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3134Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 4296Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 4297Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 3040Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4334Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3134Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 4296Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 4297Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 3040Spiral32 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).