NGC 4710

NGC 4710

NGC 4710 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 55 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,119 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
55 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
10.7
apparent magnitude
1,119 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 55 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4710 as it looked roughly 55 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 4758Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apart
IC 3779Elliptical3.4 million ly
apart
IC 3612Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4620Lenticular3.7 million ly
apart
IC 3684Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
IC 3665Irregular4.0 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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