NGC 4641

NGC 4641

NGC 4641 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 35,000 ly, about 35% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,323 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
2,323 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4641 as it looked roughly 94 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 4596Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
IC 3633Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
IC 3486Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
IC 3509Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
IC 3637Elliptical4.5 million ly
apart
IC 3562Irregular5.2 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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