NGC 3610

NGC 3610

NGC 3610 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 82 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 57,000 ly, about 57% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,787 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
82 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
10.8
apparent magnitude
1,787 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 82 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3610 as it looked roughly 82 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 3683Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3669Spiral4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3458Lenticular5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3543Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3625Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3642Barred spiral8.6 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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