NGC 4152

NGC 4152

NGC 4152 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 100 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 40,000 ly, about 40% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,066 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
2,066 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4152 as it looked roughly 100 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 4189Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
IC 3099Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
IC 769Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4168Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
IC 797Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
IC 3018Spiral9.7 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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