NGC 3569

NGC 3569

NGC 3569 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 348 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,467 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
7,467 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3569 as it looked roughly 348 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 2928Spiral42 million ly
apart
NGC 3304Spiral49 million ly
apart
IC 674Spiral50 million ly
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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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