NGC 3258C

NGC 3258C

NGC 3258C is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 39,000 ly, about 39% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,597 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
2,597 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3258C as it looked roughly 122 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 3281DBarred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
IC 2584Lenticular2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3273Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3347CSpiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3347ABarred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3258DBarred spiral5.7 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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