NGC 3310

NGC 3310

NGC 3310 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 47 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 25,000 ly, about 25% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,018 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
25k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
1,018 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3310 as it looked roughly 47 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 3718Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3729Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3079Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3206Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3359Spiral8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3631Spiral8.6 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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