NGC 4871
NGC 4871
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
317 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 317 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4871 as it looked roughly 317 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 3976Elliptical720,000 ly
apartIC 3943Lenticular1.5 million ly
apartIC 3963Lenticular1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4864Elliptical1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4869Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3943Lenticular1.5 million ly
apartIC 3963Lenticular1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4864Elliptical1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4869Elliptical2.9 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).