NGC 3618

NGC 3618

NGC 3618 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 317 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 82,000 ly, about 82% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,788 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
317 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
6,788 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 317 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3618 as it looked roughly 317 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 3615Elliptical5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3670Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 3728Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 3710Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 3534Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 707Spiral24 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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