NGC 4047
NGC 4047
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4047 as it looked roughly 160 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 3811Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 705Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3958Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4500Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 4025Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 705Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3958Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 4500Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 4025Barred spiral31 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).