NGC 4094

NGC 4094

NGC 4094 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 67 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,333 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
1,333 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4094 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 4035Spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4033Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
Antennae GalaxiesBarred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 3955Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4024Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 4027Barred spiral12 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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