NGC 4830

NGC 4830

NGC 4830 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 156 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,336 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
156 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
3,336 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 156 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4830 as it looked roughly 156 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.

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NGC 4970Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 3813Lenticular18 million ly
apart
IC 3825Galaxy19 million ly
apart
NGC 5022Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 4197Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 4968Lenticular20 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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