NGC 4983

NGC 4983

NGC 4983 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 303 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 92,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,631 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
303 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
6,631 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 303 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4983 as it looked roughly 303 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 5032Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
IC 4133Elliptical8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4889Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 5004BBarred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 4042Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 4971Elliptical11 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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