NGC 4589

NGC 4589

NGC 4589 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Draco about 91 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 1,980 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
91 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
10.7
apparent magnitude
1,980 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 91 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4589 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 4127Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3752Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5323Spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4291Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4159Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 4749Barred spiral11 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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