NGC 4219

NGC 4219

NGC 4219 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 93 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,899 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
93 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
1,899 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 93 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4219 as it looked roughly 93 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.

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NGC 4751Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 4730Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 4696ELenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 4645BLenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 4835Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 3896Elliptical17 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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