NGC 4948A
NGC 4948A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
72 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 72 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4948A as it looked roughly 72 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 4212Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4775Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4813Lenticular5.2 million ly
apartNGC 4731Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 825Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4958Lenticular6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4775Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 4813Lenticular5.2 million ly
apartNGC 4731Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 825Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4958Lenticular6.3 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).