NGC 4559B
NGC 4559B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
361 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 361 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4559B as it looked roughly 361 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 3598Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 3561Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4558Lenticular7.8 million ly
apartIC 3508Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartIC 3640Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartNGC 4556Elliptical10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3561Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartNGC 4558Lenticular7.8 million ly
apartIC 3508Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartIC 3640Elliptical9.4 million ly
apartNGC 4556Elliptical10 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).