NGC 4011
NGC 4011
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4011 as it looked roughly 197 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 3999Elliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3983Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED01Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED02Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4022Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4023Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3983Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED01Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED02Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4022Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4023Barred spiral8.7 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).