NGC 4123

NGC 4123

NGC 4123 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 60 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,238 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
60 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
1,238 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 60 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4123 as it looked roughly 60 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 4179Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4301Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4339Elliptical5.2 million ly
apart
IC 3267Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4366Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
IC 3097Elliptical7.3 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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