NGC 4352

NGC 4352

NGC 4352 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 97 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 46,000 ly, about 46% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,106 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
97 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
2,106 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 97 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4352 as it looked roughly 97 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
IC 3220Elliptical1.3 million ly
apart
IC 3358Elliptical1.7 million ly
apart
IC 3509Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
IC 3074Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
IC 3430Lenticular4.8 million ly
apart
IC 3562Irregular5.5 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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