NGC 3625

NGC 3625

NGC 3625 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 50,000 ly, about 50% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,966 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
1,966 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3625 as it looked roughly 90 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 3530Lenticular2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3669Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3613Elliptical3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3674Lenticular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3589Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3440Barred spiral5.8 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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