NGC 4705
NGC 4705
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
201 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
214k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 201 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4705 as it looked roughly 201 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 812Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4780AGalaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3859Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4778Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4761Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4780AGalaxy13 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3859Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4778Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 4761Spiral15 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).