NGC 4015 NED01

NGC 4015 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4015 NED01 as it looked roughly 202 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 4015 NED02Spiral280,000 ly
apart
NGC 4022Lenticular900,000 ly
apart
NGC 4023Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4005Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4011Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3989Barred spiral6.1 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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