NGC 4958

NGC 4958

NGC 4958 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 66 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,515 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
1,515 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4958 as it looked roughly 66 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 4813Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
IC 4212Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4790Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4699Spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 4674Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
IC 3908Barred spiral5.9 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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