NGC 3637

NGC 3637

NGC 3637 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Crater about 84 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 60,000 ly, about 60% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,802 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
1,802 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3637 as it looked roughly 84 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 3636Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3672Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
IC 688Spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3732Lenticular6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3779Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3892Lenticular9.9 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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