NGC 4194
NGC 4194
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing Medusa Galaxy Merger as it looked roughly 114 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 4384Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 3888Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 3780Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3683ASpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3835Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4814Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3888Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 3780Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3683ASpiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3835Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4814Barred spiral14 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).