NGC 3465

NGC 3465

NGC 3465 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 336 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 336 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
336 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 336 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3465 as it looked roughly 336 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 3523Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3500Spiral8.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3562Elliptical26 million ly
apart
NGC 3890Spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 3144Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
NGC 2957 NED01Elliptical37 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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