NGC 4098 NED02
NGC 4098 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
360 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 360 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4098 NED02 as it looked roughly 360 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 4091Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 4069Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4056Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 4155Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4066Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4055Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4069Elliptical4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4056Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 4155Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4066Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4055Elliptical18 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).