NGC 3563B

NGC 3563B

NGC 3563B is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 468 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,921 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
154k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
9,921 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3563B as it looked roughly 468 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 3574Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3552Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 3527Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 3570Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 3539Lenticular22 million ly
apart
NGC 3550 NED02Lenticular24 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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