NGC 4114

NGC 4114

NGC 4114 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 190 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 190 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4114 as it looked roughly 190 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 4177Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4188Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 766Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4263Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 743Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 4279Lenticular20 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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