NGC 4658

NGC 4658

NGC 4658 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,377 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
2,377 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4658 as it looked roughly 111 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 4663Lenticular910,000 ly
apart
NGC 4682Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4680Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4604Irregular9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4593Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4177Spiral13 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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