NGC 4575

NGC 4575

NGC 4575 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 139 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,250 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
5,250 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4575 as it looked roughly 139 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 4650ALenticular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4696BElliptical5.7 million ly
apart
IC 3370Elliptical5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4696Elliptical5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4373ALenticular6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4650Lenticular6.6 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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