NGC 4930

NGC 4930

NGC 4930 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus about 121 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,571 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
121 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,571 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4930 as it looked roughly 121 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 4696DLenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4645Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4661Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4603Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4950Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4603DSpiral11 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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