NGC 3614A

NGC 3614A

NGC 3614A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 340 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 68,000 ly, about 68% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 340 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sm
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3614A as it looked roughly 340 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 3677Lenticular13 million ly
apart
IC 674Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 3478Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
NGC 3374Spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 731Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
NGC 3468Lenticular38 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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