NGC 4058

NGC 4058

NGC 4058 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 270 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,800 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
270 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
5,800 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 270 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4058 as it looked roughly 270 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 4073Elliptical9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4139Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 756Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3136Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 773Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 4044Elliptical24 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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