NGC 4857
NGC 4857
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4857 as it looked roughly 400 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 5034Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 954Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 945Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 5415Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 4954Lenticular49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 954Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 945Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 5415Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5262Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 4954Lenticular49 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).