NGC 3430

NGC 3430

NGC 3430 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 74 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,570 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
74 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
1,570 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 74 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3430 as it looked roughly 74 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 3396Spiral1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3395Spiral2.2 million ly
apart
IC 2604Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3381Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3424Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
IC 2608Barred spiral4.2 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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