NGC 4125

NGC 4125

NGC 4125 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 63 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,356 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
9.7
apparent magnitude
1,356 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4125 as it looked roughly 63 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 4221Lenticular1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4391Elliptical2.2 million ly
apart
IC 758Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4205Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4036Lenticular5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4081Spiral5.7 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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