NGC 3672

NGC 3672

NGC 3672 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Crater about 87 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,857 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
87 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
1,857 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 87 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3672 as it looked roughly 87 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 3637Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3636Elliptical6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3732Lenticular8.9 million ly
apart
IC 688Spiral9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3892Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3779Barred spiral10 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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