NGC 3654

NGC 3654

NGC 3654 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 73 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 31,000 ly, about 31% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,579 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
1,579 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3654 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 3682Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3879Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3266Lenticular9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4081Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3259Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 4331Irregular10 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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