NGC 4727

NGC 4727

NGC 4727 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 355 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 280,000 ly, about 2.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,622 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
279k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
7,622 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4727 as it looked roughly 355 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 4726Galaxy640,000 ly
apart
IC 4217Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
NGC 4285Spiral49 million ly
apart
NGC 4520Elliptical51 million ly
apart
NGC 5070Elliptical54 million ly
apart
NGC 4862Spiral56 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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