NGC 3358

NGC 3358

NGC 3358 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 141 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,880 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
2,880 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3358 as it looked roughly 141 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 3354Spiral390,000 ly
apart
NGC 3258EBarred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3347BBarred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3258ALenticular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3275Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3278Spiral11 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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