NGC 3410

NGC 3410

NGC 3410 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 386 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 98,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,105 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
386 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
7,105 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 386 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3410 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.

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NGC 3288Spiral53 million ly
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NGC 3284Elliptical53 million ly
apart
NGC 3214Lenticular54 million ly
apart
NGC 3188ABarred spiral54 million ly
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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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