NGC 4535

NGC 4535

NGC 4535 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 91 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 220,000 ly, about 2.2 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,973 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
91 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
216k ly
across
9.9
apparent magnitude
1,973 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 91 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4535 as it looked roughly 91 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 4598Lenticular2.3 million ly
apart
IC 3633Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4596Lenticular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4612Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4532Irregular5.6 million ly
apart
IC 3719Irregular5.7 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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