NGC 4622

NGC 4622

NGC 4622 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,367 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
4,367 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4622 as it looked roughly 192 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 4603BBarred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4706Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 4616Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 4603ABarred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 4832Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 4696CBarred spiral25 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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