NGC 3200

NGC 3200

NGC 3200 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 164 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 190,000 ly, about 1.9 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,537 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
164 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
195k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
3,537 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 164 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3200 as it looked roughly 164 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 3178Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3171Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3124Barred spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3240Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3233Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 3091Elliptical15 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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