NGC 4360

NGC 4360

NGC 4360 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 322 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,863 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
322 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
6,863 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 322 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4360 as it looked roughly 322 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 4360BSpiral6.1 million ly
apart
IC 3271Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 4333Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 3255Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 4326Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3425Lenticular22 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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