NGC 4683

NGC 4683

NGC 4683 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 167 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,612 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
167 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
3,612 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 167 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4683 as it looked roughly 167 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 4696CBarred spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4767BBarred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4603ABarred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4507Spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4601Lenticular8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4832Lenticular8.4 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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