NGC 4793
NGC 4793
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4793 as it looked roughly 122 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 4961Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5016Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5012Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 777Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5016Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5012Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 777Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral18 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).