NGC 3334

NGC 3334

NGC 3334 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 336 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,202 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
336 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
7,202 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 336 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3334 as it looked roughly 336 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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NGC 3304Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3237Lenticular24 million ly
apart
IC 2606Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 2591Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 3468Lenticular32 million ly
apart
NGC 3150Barred spiral34 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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