NGC 3664

NGC 3664

NGC 3664 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 27,000 ly, about 27% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,362 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBm
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
1,362 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3664 as it looked roughly 64 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 3664ASpiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3640Elliptical2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3630Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3526Spiral7.0 million ly
apart
IC 676Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3524Lenticular10 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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