NGC 3275

NGC 3275

NGC 3275 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 148 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,211 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
3,211 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3275 as it looked roughly 148 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 3257Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3281Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3347BBarred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3258EBarred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3224Elliptical9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3358Lenticular9.8 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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