NGC 4603C

NGC 4603C

NGC 4603C is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 146 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 3,261 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
146 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
3,261 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 146 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4603C as it looked roughly 146 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 4645ALenticular2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4677Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4553Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4696BElliptical5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4575Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4811Lenticular8.2 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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