NGC 4995
NGC 4995
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4995 as it looked roughly 83 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 4942Spiral2.4 million ly
apartNGC 4928Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4981Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4775Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4948ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5054Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4928Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4981Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4775Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4948ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5054Barred spiral13 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).