NGC 4814

NGC 4814

NGC 4814 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 117 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,531 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
117 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,531 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 117 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4814 as it looked roughly 117 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 4964Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4384Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4512Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 4545Spiral13 million ly
apart
Medusa Galaxy MergerBarred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 875Lenticular14 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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