NGC 4108

NGC 4108

NGC 4108 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 117 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,502 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
2,502 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4108 as it looked roughly 117 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 4108BSpiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4256Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4034Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4512Lenticular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4128Lenticular8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4441Lenticular9.6 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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