NGC 4120

NGC 4120

NGC 4120 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 104 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,251 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
2,251 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4120 as it looked roughly 104 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 4108ABarred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4128Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4250Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4034Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4513Lenticular7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4121Elliptical8.3 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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