NGC 3361

NGC 3361

NGC 3361 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,924 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
1,924 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3361 as it looked roughly 90 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 630Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 3637Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 3636Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 3672Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 3292Lenticular18 million ly
apart
IC 688Spiral18 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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