NGC 3458

NGC 3458

NGC 3458 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 86 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 34,000 ly, about 34% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,818 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
86 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
1,818 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 86 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3458 as it looked roughly 86 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 3440Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3530Lenticular5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3610Elliptical5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3669Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3625Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3683Barred spiral8.1 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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