NGC 4727
NGC 4727
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
279k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4727 as it looked roughly 355 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 4726Galaxy640,000 ly
apartIC 4217Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 4285Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 4520Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical54 million ly
apartNGC 4862Spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4217Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 4285Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 4520Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 5070Elliptical54 million ly
apartNGC 4862Spiral56 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).