NGC 4070

NGC 4070

NGC 4070 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 334 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,213 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
334 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
7,213 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 334 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4070 as it looked roughly 334 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 4042Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4095Elliptical2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4093Elliptical3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4089Elliptical3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4086Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4053Spiral6.1 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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