NGC 4949
NGC 4949
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4949 as it looked roughly 318 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 4032Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical7.7 million ly
apartNGC 4898AElliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4944Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular8.4 million ly
apartNGC 4864Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4895AElliptical7.7 million ly
apartNGC 4898AElliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4944Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular8.4 million ly
apartNGC 4864Elliptical8.5 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).