NGC 4795

NGC 4795

NGC 4795 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 127 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,684 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
2,684 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4795 as it looked roughly 127 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 4803Elliptical530,000 ly
apart
NGC 4779Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4791Barred spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4799Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 3631Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 4796Elliptical15 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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