NGC 3360

NGC 3360

NGC 3360 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 394 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,441 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
394 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
8,441 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 394 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3360 as it looked roughly 394 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
IC 654Lenticular17 million ly
apart
NGC 3452Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 3280AElliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 3280CElliptical23 million ly
apart
IC 650Spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 3296Elliptical31 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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