NGC 4162
NGC 4162
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4162 as it looked roughly 125 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 777Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4158Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4275Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4158Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4529Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4275Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3298Barred spiral20 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).