NGC 3667A

NGC 3667A

NGC 3667A is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Crater about 240 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 240 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3667A as it looked roughly 240 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 3663Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3693Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3667Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
IC 706Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 679Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 3704Elliptical14 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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