NGC 4084

NGC 4084

NGC 4084 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 316 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,675 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
6,675 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4084 as it looked roughly 316 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 4092Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4074Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4060Elliptical5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4072Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4086Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 4002Spiral16 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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