NGC 4434

NGC 4434

NGC 4434 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 50 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 21,000 ly, about 21% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,073 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
21k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
1,073 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4434 as it looked roughly 50 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 4309Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
IC 3487Elliptical1.9 million ly
apart
IC 3218Elliptical1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4390Spiral2.2 million ly
apart
IC 3328Elliptical3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4423Spiral3.1 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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