NGC 4050
NGC 4050
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4050 as it looked roughly 82 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 4027AIrregular4.5 million ly
apartNGC 3962Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3981Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4024Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4027Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3962Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartAntennae GalaxiesBarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3981Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4024Elliptical5.6 million ly
apartNGC 4027Barred spiral6.3 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).