NGC 4926

NGC 4926

NGC 4926 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 366 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,892 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
366 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
7,892 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 366 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4926 as it looked roughly 366 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 4911Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 4111Lenticular5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4851Lenticular6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4860Elliptical6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4927Elliptical6.9 million ly
apart
IC 4033Lenticular7.2 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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