NGC 3347A

NGC 3347A

NGC 3347A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 125 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 80,000 ly, about 80% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,899 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
2,899 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3347A as it looked roughly 125 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 3347CSpiral460,000 ly
apart
NGC 3347Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3281DBarred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3258CSpiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3289Lenticular5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3281CLenticular7.3 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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