NGC 4082
NGC 4082
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
326 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4082 as it looked roughly 326 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 2990Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 3008Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3029Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3107Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3996Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3093Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3008Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3029Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3107Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3996Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3093Spiral26 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).