NGC 4446

NGC 4446

NGC 4446 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 341 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 97,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,342 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
341 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
7,342 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 341 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4446 as it looked roughly 341 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 4447Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
IC 3235Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 3481Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 3280Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 3467Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 3209Spiral18 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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