NGC 3448

NGC 3448

NGC 3448 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 55,000 ly, about 55% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,388 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · S?
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
1,388 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3448 as it looked roughly 64 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 3499Lenticular7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3756Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3846AIrregular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3657Spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3838Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3757Lenticular9.0 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).

← all galaxies