NGC 4262

NGC 4262

NGC 4262 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 63 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 32,000 ly, about 32% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,368 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
1,368 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4262 as it looked roughly 63 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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IC 781Elliptical190,000 ly
apart
IC 3096Spiral1.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4377Elliptical2.8 million ly
apart
IC 3077Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
IC 3419Elliptical3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4477Lenticular3.2 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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