NGC 4156
NGC 4156
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4156 as it looked roughly 316 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 2987Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartNGC 4148Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 3014Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3022Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 4109Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4097Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4148Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 3014Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3022Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 4109Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4097Lenticular28 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).