NGC 4034

NGC 4034

NGC 4034 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 47,000 ly, about 47% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,384 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
2,384 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4034 as it looked roughly 111 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 4128Lenticular2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4108ABarred spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4120Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4108Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4513Lenticular9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4108BSpiral10 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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