NGC 4696A
NGC 4696A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4696A as it looked roughly 110 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 4645BLenticular6.0 million ly
apartNGC 4661Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4696DLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4645Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4603Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4835Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4661Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4696DLenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 4645Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4603Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4835Barred spiral12 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).