NGC 4202
NGC 4202
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4202 as it looked roughly 268 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 4139Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 4079Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4073Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 754Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 4006Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 4044Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4079Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4073Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 754Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 4006Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 4044Elliptical26 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).