NGC 4770
NGC 4770
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4770 as it looked roughly 170 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 4776Lenticular1.6 million ly
apartNGC 4777Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4780Spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4739Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 3883Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 4773Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4777Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4780Spiral6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4739Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartIC 3883Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 4773Elliptical7.2 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).