NGC 4895

NGC 4895

NGC 4895 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 397 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,440 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
397 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
192k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
8,440 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 397 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4895 as it looked roughly 397 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 4044Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4854Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
IC 4051Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 4789Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 4026Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 4883Elliptical18 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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