NGC 4615

NGC 4615

NGC 4615 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 221 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,755 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
221 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,755 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 221 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4615 as it looked roughly 221 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 4614Lenticular1.8 million ly
apart
IC 3651Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
IC 3632Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
IC 3600Lenticular6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4613Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4738Spiral13 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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