NGC 3287

NGC 3287

NGC 3287 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 61 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 31,000 ly, about 31% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,151 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBd
61 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
1,151 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 61 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3287 as it looked roughly 61 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 3301Lenticular1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3226Elliptical3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3189Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3177Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3437Spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3213Barred spiral5.0 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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