NGC 4692

NGC 4692

NGC 4692 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 371 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,883 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
371 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
7,883 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 371 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4692 as it looked roughly 371 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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apart
NGC 4860Elliptical17 million ly
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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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