NGC 4834

NGC 4834

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
524 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 524 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4834 as it looked roughly 524 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 4537Lenticular46 million ly
apart
NGC 4732Elliptical63 million ly
apart
IC 919Lenticular74 million ly
apart
NGC 5003Spiral82 million ly
apart
NGC 5009Barred spiral83 million ly
apart
IC 942Elliptical86 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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