NGC 4098 NED01
NGC 4098 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
341 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 341 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4098 NED01 as it looked roughly 341 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 4090Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 4066Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4055Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4089Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4056Elliptical4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4053Spiral7.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4066Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 4055Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4089Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4056Elliptical4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4053Spiral7.1 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).