NGC 4760

NGC 4760

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
218 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 218 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4760 as it looked roughly 218 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 4717Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4716Lenticular7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4792Lenticular9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4820Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 4823Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 4761Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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