NGC 4835

NGC 4835

NGC 4835 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 102 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,226 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
102 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
2,226 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 102 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4835 as it looked roughly 102 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 4988Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
IC 3896Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4645BLenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 4730Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 4696ABarred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 4751Elliptical13 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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