NGC 4470

NGC 4470

NGC 4470 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 41,000 ly, about 41% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,358 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
2,358 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4470 as it looked roughly 110 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 4522Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
IC 3225Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4543Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4578Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4270Lenticular6.5 million ly
apart
IC 782Lenticular6.6 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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