NGC 4036

NGC 4036

NGC 4036 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 67 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,397 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
10.8
apparent magnitude
1,397 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4036 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 4205Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4081Spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4125Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4391Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
IC 758Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4221Lenticular7.5 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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