NGC 3677

NGC 3677

NGC 3677 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 348 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,475 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
7,475 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3677 as it looked roughly 348 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 3614ASpiral13 million ly
apart
IC 674Spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 731Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 3406 NED01Elliptical42 million ly
apart
NGC 3406 NED02Lenticular45 million ly
apart
NGC 3478Barred spiral47 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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