NGC 3327

NGC 3327

NGC 3327 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 294 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,288 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
294 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
6,288 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 294 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3327 as it looked roughly 294 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 3270Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 2583Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 2590Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 3475Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 2598Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 3209Elliptical24 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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