NGC 3185

NGC 3185

NGC 3185 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 57 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 36,000 ly, about 36% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,239 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
57 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
1,239 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 57 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3185 as it looked roughly 57 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
IC 610Barred spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3226Elliptical3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3177Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3189Spiral3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3162Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3287Barred spiral5.5 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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