NGC 4559A
NGC 4559A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4559A as it looked roughly 348 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 3587Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartIC 3556Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartNGC 4556Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartIC 3585Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4563Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartIC 3598Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3556Lenticular7.0 million ly
apartNGC 4556Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartIC 3585Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4563Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartIC 3598Spiral8.5 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).