NGC 4570

NGC 4570

NGC 4570 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 81 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,730 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
81 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
1,730 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 81 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4570 as it looked roughly 81 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 4492Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4623Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
IC 3591Irregular4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4496ASpiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4608Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4612Lenticular5.8 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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