NGC 4935

NGC 4935

NGC 4935 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 298 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,427 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
298 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
6,427 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 298 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4935 as it looked roughly 298 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
IC 827Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 4978Lenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 857Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 5136Elliptical30 million ly
apart
NGC 4611Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
IC 882Elliptical34 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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