NGC 4054 NED03
NGC 4054 NED03
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
480 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 480 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4054 NED03 as it looked roughly 480 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 4054 NED01Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED02Spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 3975Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3978Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4054 NED02Spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 3975Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3978Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral49 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).