NGC 4985
NGC 4985
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
388 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 388 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4985 as it looked roughly 388 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 4100Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4165Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4193Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5123Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4704Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4165Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4168Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4193Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5123Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4704Barred spiral25 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).