NGC 4517A
NGC 4517A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
71 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 71 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4517A as it looked roughly 71 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 3474Spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 4527Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 4666Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4668Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4684Lenticular6.3 million ly
apartNGC 4303Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4527Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 4666Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4668Spiral6.1 million ly
apartNGC 4684Lenticular6.3 million ly
apartNGC 4303Barred spiral6.3 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).