NGC 4756

NGC 4756

NGC 4756 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 190 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,094 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
4,094 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4756 as it looked roughly 190 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 4763Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4748Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
IC 3822Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4783Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 4794Spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 3831Lenticular10 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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