NGC 3416

NGC 3416

NGC 3416 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 155 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 27,000 ly, about 27% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,276 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
3,276 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3416 as it looked roughly 155 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 3415Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3811Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 705Lenticular30 million ly
apart
NGC 3549Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 3398Spiral35 million ly
apart
NGC 3656Spiral35 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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