NGC 4966

NGC 4966

NGC 4966 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 327 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,099 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
7,099 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4966 as it looked roughly 327 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 4944Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4922 NED02Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5004Lenticular7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4913Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4949Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
IC 4045Elliptical9.0 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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