NGC 4027A

NGC 4027A

NGC 4027A is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 81 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 26,000 ly, about 26% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,747 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Irregular
type · IB
81 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
26k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
1,747 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 81 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4027A as it looked roughly 81 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 3981Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3957Lenticular3.1 million ly
apart
Antennae GalaxiesBarred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4027Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4024Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4050Spiral4.5 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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