NGC 3350

NGC 3350

NGC 3350 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 483 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 91,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,395 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
483 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
10,395 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 483 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3350 as it looked roughly 483 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 3527Spiral49 million ly
apart
NGC 3550 NED02Lenticular51 million ly
apart
NGC 3550 NED01Elliptical51 million ly
apart
NGC 3552Elliptical54 million ly
apart
NGC 3536Spiral55 million ly
apart
NGC 3539Lenticular57 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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