NGC 4593

NGC 4593

NGC 4593 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 117 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 81,000 ly, about 81% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,662 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,662 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4593 as it looked roughly 117 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 4602Spiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4604Irregular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4663Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4658Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4454Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4642Barred spiral12 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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