NGC 3648

NGC 3648

NGC 3648 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 96 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 33,000 ly, about 33% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,111 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
96 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
33k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
2,111 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 96 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3648 as it looked roughly 96 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 3658Lenticular2.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3665Lenticular3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3652Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3694Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 3583Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 3595Lenticular16 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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