NGC 4623

NGC 4623

NGC 4623 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 85 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,841 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
1,841 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4623 as it looked roughly 85 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 4612Lenticular1.6 million ly
apart
IC 3719Irregular2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4608Lenticular3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4570Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4492Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4598Lenticular6.3 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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