NGC 4696A

NGC 4696A

NGC 4696A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,616 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
2,616 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4696A as it looked roughly 110 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 4645BLenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4661Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4696DLenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4645Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 4603Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4835Barred 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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