NGC 3346

NGC 3346

NGC 3346 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 58 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,110 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,110 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3346 as it looked roughly 58 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 3338Spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3370Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3389Spiral3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3457Elliptical5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3443Spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3455Spiral7.1 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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