NGC 3364

NGC 3364

NGC 3364 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 51,000 ly, about 51% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,713 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
2,713 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3364 as it looked roughly 126 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 3516Lenticular4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3348Elliptical5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3147Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3735Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3155Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3061Spiral16 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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