NGC 4915

NGC 4915

NGC 4915 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,152 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
3,152 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4915 as it looked roughly 141 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 4890Spiral520,000 ly
apart
NGC 4989Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
Cocoon GalaxyLenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5015Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4671Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 804Lenticular13 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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