NGC 3567

NGC 3567

NGC 3567 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 294 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,338 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
294 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
6,338 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 294 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3567 as it looked roughly 294 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.

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IC 2758Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 2757Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 3580Lenticular23 million ly
apart
NGC 3462Lenticular25 million ly
apart
NGC 3441Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
IC 2850Spiral27 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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