NGC 4027

NGC 4027

NGC 4027 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 78 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,639 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBd
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
1,639 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4027 as it looked roughly 78 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
Antennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1,000,000 ly
apart
NGC 4024Elliptical1.3 million ly
apart
Antennae GalaxiesBarred spiral1.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3957Lenticular2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3956Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4027AIrregular3.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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