NGC 4778
NGC 4778
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4778 as it looked roughly 204 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 4761Spiral190,000 ly
apartNGC 4780AGalaxy2.2 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 3859Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 4716Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4764Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4780AGalaxy2.2 million ly
apartNGC 4703Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 3859Spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 4716Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4764Elliptical11 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).