NGC 4612

NGC 4612

NGC 4612 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 87 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 65,000 ly, about 65% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,821 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
87 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
1,821 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 87 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4612 as it looked roughly 87 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 4623Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
IC 3719Irregular1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4608Lenticular4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4598Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4535Spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4570Lenticular5.8 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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