NGC 4319

NGC 4319

NGC 4319 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 63 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 1,700 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
1,700 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4319 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.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 4133Spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4363Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4648Elliptical6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3879Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3403Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4331Irregular9.8 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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