NGC 3258A

NGC 3258A

NGC 3258A is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 137 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,930 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
137 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,930 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 137 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3258A 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 3223Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3224Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3268Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3258EBarred spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3258Elliptical6.5 million ly
apart
IC 2560Barred spiral7.5 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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