NGC 4607

NGC 4607

NGC 4607 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 106 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,284 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
2,284 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4607 as it looked roughly 106 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.

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NGC 4578Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4522Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4501Barred spiral6.3 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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