NGC 4880

NGC 4880

NGC 4880 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,491 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
1,491 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4880 as it looked roughly 64 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 3806Spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4647Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
IC 3701Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
IC 3767Elliptical5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4754Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4528Lenticular7.2 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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