NGC 4412

NGC 4412

NGC 4412 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 107 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 47,000 ly, about 47% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,271 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,271 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4412 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 4292Lenticular3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4300Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4273Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4270Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
IC 3155Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4480Spiral6.6 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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