NGC 3441

NGC 3441

NGC 3441 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 304 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,659 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
304 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
6,659 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 304 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3441 as it looked roughly 304 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 3462Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3436Spiral4.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3417Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3427Lenticular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3425Lenticular8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3439Barred spiral17 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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