NGC 3250C

NGC 3250C

NGC 3250C is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 120 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 120 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3250C as it looked roughly 120 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 3250BBarred spiral1.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3256CBarred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3244Spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3273Lenticular9.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3261Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3318BSpiral10 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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