NGC 4933B

NGC 4933B

NGC 4933B is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 152 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 3,291 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
152 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
193k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
3,291 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 152 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4933B as it looked roughly 152 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 4933AElliptical29,000 ly
apart
NGC 4933CSpiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4939Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
IC 4071Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 4885Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 4925Lenticular14 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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