NGC 4829

NGC 4829

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4829 as it looked roughly 181 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 3831Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4782Elliptical6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4794Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4783Elliptical6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4822Elliptical9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4756Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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