NGC 4923
NGC 4923
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4923 as it looked roughly 255 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 4921Spiral460,000 ly
apartNGC 4931Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 4943Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 3947Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5000Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4021Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4931Lenticular4.2 million ly
apartNGC 4943Lenticular8.1 million ly
apartIC 3947Lenticular9.3 million ly
apartNGC 5000Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4021Elliptical13 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).