NGC 4450

NGC 4450

NGC 4450 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,048 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
10.9
apparent magnitude
2,048 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4450 as it looked roughly 90 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 4323Lenticular4.7 million ly
apart
IC 3478Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4461Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4425Lenticular6.9 million ly
apart
IC 3637Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4305Spiral7.2 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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