NGC 4911

NGC 4911

NGC 4911 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 371 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,883 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
371 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
7,883 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 371 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4911 as it looked roughly 371 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 4875Lenticular2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4860Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4926Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4851Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4883Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
IC 4026Lenticular9.7 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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