NGC 4514

NGC 4514

NGC 4514 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 376 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,074 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
376 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
8,074 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 376 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4514 as it looked roughly 376 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.

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IC 3402Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
IC 3210Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 4558Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 4559BBarred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3263Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 3243Barred spiral21 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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