NGC 4842B

NGC 4842B

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
337 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 337 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4842B as it looked roughly 337 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 4842AElliptical3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4872Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
IC 4011Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
IC 4012Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4874Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4839Elliptical4.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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