NGC 4558

NGC 4558

NGC 4558 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 367 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 78,000 ly, about 78% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,847 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
367 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
7,847 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 367 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4558 as it looked roughly 367 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
IC 3561Elliptical1.4 million ly
apart
IC 3508Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
IC 3614Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4559BBarred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
IC 3640Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
IC 3598Spiral13 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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