NGC 4210

NGC 4210

NGC 4210 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,527 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
2,527 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4210 as it looked roughly 126 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 4332Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4441Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4510Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4238Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4108BSpiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4545Spiral7.8 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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