NGC 3164

NGC 3164

NGC 3164 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 363 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 84,000 ly, about 84% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,783 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
363 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
7,783 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 363 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3164 as it looked roughly 363 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 3188Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3214Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3188ABarred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3238Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 3288Spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 3284Elliptical28 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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