NGC 4038
NGC 4038
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
10.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing Antennae Galaxies 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 spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 4024Elliptical1.4 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3957Lenticular2.8 million ly
apartNGC 4027AIrregular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3956Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4024Elliptical1.4 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3957Lenticular2.8 million ly
apartNGC 4027AIrregular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3956Barred spiral3.5 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).