NGC 4893A

NGC 4893A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E?
499 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 499 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4893A as it looked roughly 499 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 4027Lenticular2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4893Elliptical4.1 million ly
apart
IC 4115Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4870Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
IC 4144Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
IC 4127Spiral14 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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