NGC 4092

NGC 4092

NGC 4092 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 314 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,774 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
314 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
6,774 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 314 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4092 as it looked roughly 314 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 4074Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4060Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4084Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4072Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 4086Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 3946Lenticular17 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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