NGC 4793

NGC 4793

NGC 4793 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 65,000 ly, about 65% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,423 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
2,423 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4793 as it looked roughly 122 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 4961Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5016Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 5012Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5117Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 777Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 3740Spiral18 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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