NGC 4054 NED02
NGC 4054 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
475 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
17.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 475 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4054 NED02 as it looked roughly 475 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 4054 NED01Barred spiral840,000 ly
apartNGC 4054 NED03Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 3975Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3978Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4054 NED03Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 3975Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3978Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral44 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).