NGC 4083
NGC 4083
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
467 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 467 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4083 as it looked roughly 467 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 2991Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 3012Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3037Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3043Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 748Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3174Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3012Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3037Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3043Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 748Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3174Spiral38 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).