NGC 3619

NGC 3619

NGC 3619 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 73 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,649 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
1,649 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3619 as it looked roughly 73 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 3642Barred spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3499Lenticular4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3543Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3683Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3846AIrregular8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3610Elliptical9.4 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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