NGC 4661
NGC 4661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4661 as it looked roughly 117 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 4645Elliptical4.0 million ly
apartNGC 4696DLenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4696ABarred spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4930Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603DSpiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4696DLenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4696ABarred spiral7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4930Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4603DSpiral10 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).