NGC 3250D

NGC 3250D

NGC 3250D is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 137 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 137 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
137 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 137 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3250D as it looked roughly 137 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 3278Spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3250Elliptical5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3250ESpiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3244Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3318Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3366Barred spiral9.8 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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