NGC 3312

NGC 3312

NGC 3312 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 132 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,853 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
132 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
2,853 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 132 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3312 as it looked roughly 132 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 3314ABarred spiral2.1 million ly
apart
IC 2597Elliptical8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3285BBarred spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3390Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 3241Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3208Spiral13 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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