NGC 4024
NGC 4024
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4024 as it looked roughly 78 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 4027Barred spiral1.3 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.4 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.8 million ly
apartNGC 3957Lenticular2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3956Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4033Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.4 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.8 million ly
apartNGC 3957Lenticular2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3956Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 4033Elliptical3.8 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).