NGC 4158
NGC 4158
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
115 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 115 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4158 as it looked roughly 115 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 3298Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3049Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3365Irregular12 million ly
apartComa PinwheelSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4529Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3049Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3365Irregular12 million ly
apartComa PinwheelSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral13 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).