NGC 3352

NGC 3352

NGC 3352 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 268 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,744 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
5,744 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3352 as it looked roughly 268 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 3363Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apart
IC 2598Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 642Elliptical24 million ly
apart
NGC 3426Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 3222Lenticular27 million ly
apart
NGC 3327Barred spiral28 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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