NGC 4790

NGC 4790

NGC 4790 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 31,000 ly, about 31% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,404 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
1,404 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4790 as it looked roughly 64 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 4699Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4700Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4674Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4742Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4723Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4781Spiral4.4 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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