NGC 4454

NGC 4454

NGC 4454 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 109 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 69,000 ly, about 69% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,373 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
109 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
2,373 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 109 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4454 as it looked roughly 109 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 4604Irregular9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4385Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 4355Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4593Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4412Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4480Spiral13 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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