NGC 4961
NGC 4961
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4961 as it looked roughly 119 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 4793Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5016Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5012Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5016Spiral8.6 million ly
apartNGC 5117Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5012Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 851Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral17 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).