NGC 4854

NGC 4854

NGC 4854 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 391 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,173 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
391 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
8,173 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 391 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4854 as it looked roughly 391 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 4895Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4789Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
IC 4044Lenticular9.2 million ly
apart
IC 4026Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 4883Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 4051Elliptical17 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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