NGC 4351

NGC 4351

NGC 4351 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 107 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,388 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,388 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4351 as it looked roughly 107 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 4473Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
IC 3305Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4200Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4501Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 3061Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4168Elliptical5.7 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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