NGC 4928
NGC 4928
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
25k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4928 as it looked roughly 80 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 4942Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 4981Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 4995Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4775Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4948ABarred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 825Elliptical10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4981Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 4995Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4775Spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4948ABarred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 825Elliptical10 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).