NGC 4336

NGC 4336

NGC 4336 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 49 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 22,000 ly, about 22% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,134 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
1,134 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4336 as it looked roughly 49 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 4394Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apart
IC 3313Elliptical3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4379Elliptical3.3 million ly
apart
IC 3065Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4302Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4344Lenticular5.6 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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