NGC 4386

NGC 4386

NGC 4386 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco about 80 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,677 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
1,677 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4386 as it looked roughly 80 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 4159Spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4291Elliptical3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3901Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4749Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4750Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4127Spiral6.5 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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