NGC 3530

NGC 3530

NGC 3530 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 91 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 21,000 ly, about 21% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,938 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
91 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
21k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
1,938 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 91 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3530 as it looked roughly 91 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 3625Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3440Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3613Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3674Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3669Spiral5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3458Lenticular5.6 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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