NGC 4620
NGC 4620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
53 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
25k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 53 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4620 as it looked roughly 53 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 3583Irregular1.4 million ly
apartNGC 4638Elliptical1.4 million ly
apartIC 3684Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartIC 3779Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartNGC 4564Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartNGC 4639Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4638Elliptical1.4 million ly
apartIC 3684Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartIC 3779Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartNGC 4564Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartNGC 4639Barred spiral2.1 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).