NGC 4767A
NGC 4767A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
134 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
23k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 134 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4767A as it looked roughly 134 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 4767Elliptical4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4696Elliptical4.4 million ly
apartNGC 4650Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4650ALenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 4743Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4575Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4696Elliptical4.4 million ly
apartNGC 4650Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4650ALenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 4743Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4575Barred spiral8.4 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).