NGC 4014
NGC 4014
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4014 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 3934Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3933Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 3803Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3806Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3801Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3790Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3933Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 3803Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3806Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3801Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3790Lenticular17 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).