NGC 4089

NGC 4089

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
337 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 337 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4089 as it looked roughly 337 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 4095Elliptical3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4070Elliptical3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4090Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4098 NED01Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4093Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4042Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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