NGC 4200

NGC 4200

NGC 4200 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 109 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,346 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
109 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
2,346 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 109 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4200 as it looked roughly 109 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
IC 3061Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apart
IC 3063Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4168Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4351Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
IC 3305Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
Coma PinwheelSpiral5.7 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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