NGC 4513

NGC 4513

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4513 as it looked roughly 107 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 4481Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4108ABarred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4121Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4128Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4120Spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4034Spiral9.0 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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