NGC 4029
NGC 4029
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4029 as it looked roughly 285 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
IC 3013Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3914Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 756Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3973Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 724Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3843Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3914Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 756Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3973Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 724Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3843Lenticular22 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).