NGC 4325

NGC 4325

NGC 4325 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 356 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,786 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
356 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
7,786 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 356 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4325 as it looked roughly 356 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 4320Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 3347Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
IC 3170Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apart
IC 3209Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
IC 3284Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
IC 3147 NED02Lenticular11 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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