NGC 4025
NGC 4025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4025 as it looked roughly 150 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 2973Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3995Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular14 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3995Spiral15 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).