NGC 4747
NGC 4747
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
55 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 55 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4747 as it looked roughly 55 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 4725Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 3571Irregular3.4 million ly
apartNeedle GalaxyBarred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 4525Spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 3837Irregular6.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3571Irregular3.4 million ly
apartNeedle GalaxyBarred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4670Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 4525Spiral5.8 million ly
apartIC 3837Irregular6.1 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).