NGC 4965
NGC 4965
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4965 as it looked roughly 106 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
IC 874Lenticular5.2 million ly
apartIC 4231Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 4806Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5078Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4214Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 4254Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4231Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 4806Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5078Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4214Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 4254Barred spiral8.9 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).