NGC 4875

NGC 4875

NGC 4875 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 373 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,805 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
373 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
7,805 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 373 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4875 as it looked roughly 373 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 4911Spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4860Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4851Lenticular6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4883Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4926Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
IC 4026Lenticular7.9 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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