NGC 4753

NGC 4753

NGC 4753 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 59 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,237 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
59 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
9.7
apparent magnitude
1,237 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 59 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4753 as it looked roughly 59 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 4904Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4643Lenticular4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4697Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4771Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4691Lenticular6.7 million ly
apart
IC 3908Barred spiral6.8 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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