NGC 4980
NGC 4980
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4980 as it looked roughly 67 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 5042Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 5121ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5121Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5170Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5247Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4856Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5121ASpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5121Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5170Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5247Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4856Lenticular16 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).