NGC 4464

NGC 4464

NGC 4464 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 59 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 17,000 ly, about 17% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,255 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
59 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
17k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,255 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 59 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4464 as it looked roughly 59 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 4411BSpiral1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4411Spiral1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4366Elliptical1.4 million ly
apart
IC 3267Spiral1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4316Spiral2.3 million ly
apart
IC 3468Elliptical2.7 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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