NGC 3215

NGC 3215

NGC 3215 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 441 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,468 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
441 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
9,468 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 441 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3215 as it looked roughly 441 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.

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NGC 3212Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 3197Barred spiral66 million ly
apart
IC 2601Elliptical70 million ly
apart
NGC 4954Lenticular70 million ly
apart
IC 2600Galaxy72 million ly
apart
NGC 5262Elliptical83 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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