NGC 3400

NGC 3400

NGC 3400 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 66 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 29,000 ly, about 29% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,408 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
1,408 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3400 as it looked roughly 66 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 3414Lenticular1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3512Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3451Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3277Spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3265Elliptical5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3254Barred spiral5.9 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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