NGC 3314A

NGC 3314A

NGC 3314A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 130 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 44,000 ly, about 44% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,916 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
2,916 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3314A as it looked roughly 130 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 3312Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3390Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 2597Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 3285BBarred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 3241Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3208Spiral15 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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