NGC 3333

NGC 3333

NGC 3333 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 202 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about 85% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,104 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
4,104 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3333 as it looked roughly 202 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.

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IC 2573Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 3302Lenticular21 million ly
apart
IC 2582Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 3276Lenticular24 million ly
apart
IC 2548Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 2578Spiral25 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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