NGC 3375

NGC 3375

NGC 3375 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 113 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,365 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,365 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3375 as it looked roughly 113 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 3321Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3481Spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3292Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 630Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 3361Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 3715Barred spiral25 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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