NGC 3613

NGC 3613

NGC 3613 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 97,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,054 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
10.8
apparent magnitude
2,054 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3613 as it looked roughly 94 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 3674Lenticular2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3625Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3530Lenticular4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3589Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3445Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3440Barred spiral7.2 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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