NGC 4922 NED01

NGC 4922 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
335 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
120k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 335 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4922 NED01 as it looked roughly 335 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 4913Spiral3.5 million ly
apart
IC 842Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4916Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4922 NED02Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
IC 4012Elliptical7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4912Lenticular8.1 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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