NGC 4995

NGC 4995

NGC 4995 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 83 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,802 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.1
apparent magnitude
1,802 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 4995 as it looked roughly 83 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 4942Spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 4928Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4981Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4775Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 4948ABarred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 5054Barred spiral13 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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