NGC 4104

NGC 4104

NGC 4104 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 400 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 290,000 ly, about 2.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,207 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
291k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
8,207 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4104 as it looked roughly 400 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.

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NGC 4295Lenticular23 million ly
apart
IC 3165Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 4272Elliptical26 million ly
apart
IC 2971Elliptical27 million ly
apart
IC 3210Lenticular30 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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