NGC 4682

NGC 4682

NGC 4682 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 109 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 82,000 ly, about 82% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,307 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
109 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
2,307 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 109 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4682 as it looked roughly 109 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 4658Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4663Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4680Lenticular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4604Irregular10 million ly
apart
IC 4177Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4593Barred spiral12 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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