NGC 4510

NGC 4510

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4510 as it looked roughly 127 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 4441Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4332Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4238Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4545Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4210Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 836Spiral6.2 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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