NGC 4916
NGC 4916
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4916 as it looked roughly 340 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 842Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4912Lenticular3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4922 NED01Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 4012Elliptical7.8 million ly
apartIC 4011Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4913Spiral8.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4912Lenticular3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4922 NED01Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 4012Elliptical7.8 million ly
apartIC 4011Elliptical7.9 million ly
apartNGC 4913Spiral8.3 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).