NGC 4411
NGC 4411
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4411 as it looked roughly 60 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 4411BSpiral980,000 ly
apartNGC 4464Elliptical1.1 million ly
apartNGC 4366Elliptical1.7 million ly
apartNGC 4316Spiral1.8 million ly
apartIC 3361Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartIC 3267Spiral2.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4464Elliptical1.1 million ly
apartNGC 4366Elliptical1.7 million ly
apartNGC 4316Spiral1.8 million ly
apartIC 3361Elliptical1.9 million ly
apartIC 3267Spiral2.0 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).