NGC 4848

NGC 4848

NGC 4848 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 327 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,248 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
7,248 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4848 as it looked roughly 327 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
IC 3959Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
IC 4030Lenticular3.5 million ly
apart
IC 4045Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
IC 4041Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4807Elliptical5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 4816Elliptical6.1 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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