NGC 4672

NGC 4672

NGC 4672 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 154 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,389 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
3,389 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4672 as it looked roughly 154 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 4729Elliptical3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4744Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4681Spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4645ALenticular6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4601Lenticular6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4812Lenticular6.8 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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