NGC 3329

NGC 3329

NGC 3329 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 87 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,812 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
87 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
1,812 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 87 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3329 as it looked roughly 87 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 3752Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 4127Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3901Spiral9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4159Spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2732Lenticular9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4291Elliptical9.5 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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