NGC 3418

NGC 3418

NGC 3418 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 59 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 19,000 ly, about 19% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,251 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
59 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
19k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
1,251 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 59 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3418 as it looked roughly 59 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 3451Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3437Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3512Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3245Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3254Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3400Barred spiral7.3 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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