NGC 4410B

NGC 4410B

NGC 4410B is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 354 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 60,000 ly, about 60% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,547 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
7,547 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4410B as it looked roughly 354 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 4410ASpiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4410CLenticular6.4 million ly
apart
IC 3170Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4465Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 4325Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 789Lenticular12 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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