NGC 3526

NGC 3526

NGC 3526 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 66 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 46,000 ly, about 46% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,271 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
1,271 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3526 as it looked roughly 66 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
IC 676Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3524Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3664Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3630Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3640Elliptical7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3664ASpiral7.9 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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