NGC 3419

NGC 3419

NGC 3419 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 142 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 31,000 ly, about 31% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,028 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
142 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
3,028 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 142 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3419 as it looked roughly 142 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 3419ABarred spiral1.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3391Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3367Spiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3300Lenticular8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3306Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
IC 2684Irregular16 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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