NGC 3258

NGC 3258

NGC 3258 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 131 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,792 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,792 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3258 as it looked roughly 131 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 3268Elliptical910,000 ly
apart
NGC 3281CLenticular2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3289Lenticular3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3258ALenticular6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3223Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3347Barred spiral7.6 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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