NGC 4841A
NGC 4841A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
315 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 315 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4841A as it looked roughly 315 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 3943Lenticular3.0 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 4032Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartIC 3976Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4895AElliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular4.0 million ly
apartIC 4032Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartIC 3976Elliptical4.3 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).