NGC 3362

NGC 3362

NGC 3362 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 386 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,322 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
386 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
8,322 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 386 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3362 as it looked roughly 386 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 3349Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apart
IC 634Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3341Galaxy12 million ly
apart
NGC 3326Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 3337Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 628Spiral19 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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