NGC 3467

NGC 3467

NGC 3467 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 440 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,477 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
9,477 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3467 as it looked roughly 440 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 3444Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3466Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 664Elliptical35 million ly
apart
NGC 3476Elliptical41 million ly
apart
NGC 3477Lenticular41 million ly
apart
IC 2712Barred spiral42 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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