NGC 4290
NGC 4290
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4290 as it looked roughly 141 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 4149Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4500Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3894Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3958Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3963Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4500Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3894Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3958Spiral16 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).