NGC 4112

NGC 4112

NGC 4112 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 63,000 ly, about 63% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,650 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
2,650 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4112 as it looked roughly 126 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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IC 3370Elliptical14 million ly
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IC 3253Spiral14 million ly
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IC 2977Irregular15 million ly
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NGC 3749Spiral15 million ly
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NGC 4603DSpiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 4603Spiral15 million ly
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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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