NGC 3289

NGC 3289

NGC 3289 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 129 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,702 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,702 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3289 as it looked roughly 129 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 3281CLenticular1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3268Elliptical2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3258Elliptical3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3347Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3347ABarred spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3347CSpiral5.9 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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