NGC 4175

NGC 4175

NGC 4175 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,007 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
4,007 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4175 as it looked roughly 192 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 4174Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4132Spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4196Lenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4185Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4131Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4253Barred spiral15 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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