NGC 4348

NGC 4348

NGC 4348 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 73,000 ly, about 73% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,981 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
1,981 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4348 as it looked roughly 94 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 4355Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4385Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4240Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 4599Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4581Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 4234Spiral12 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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