NGC 4892

NGC 4892

NGC 4892 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 276 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,895 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
276 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
5,895 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 276 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4892 as it looked roughly 276 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 4849Lenticular3.4 million ly
apart
IC 3946Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4840Elliptical6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4850Lenticular6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4873Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4896Elliptical7.2 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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