NGC 3285B

NGC 3285B

NGC 3285B is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,149 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
3,149 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3285B as it looked roughly 141 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
IC 2597Elliptical2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3312Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3208Spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3314ABarred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 2580Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3390Barred spiral15 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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