NGC 4783

NGC 4783

NGC 4783 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Corvus about 186 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,628 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
4,628 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4783 as it looked roughly 186 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 4794Spiral580,000 ly
apart
NGC 4782Elliptical710,000 ly
apart
NGC 4822Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4829Elliptical6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4748Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4766Lenticular7.2 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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