NGC 4799
NGC 4799
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
54k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4799 as it looked roughly 129 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 4690Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 4653Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4795Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4642Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4803Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 4779Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4653Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4795Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4642Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4803Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 4779Barred spiral16 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).