NGC 4211A

NGC 4211A

NGC 4211A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 311 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 6,670 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
311 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
6,670 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 311 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4211A as it looked roughly 311 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 4211Lenticular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4146Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 780Elliptical15 million ly
apart
IC 3143Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 3362Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 3300Spiral17 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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