NGC 3678

NGC 3678

NGC 3678 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 336 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 69,000 ly, about 69% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,185 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
336 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
7,185 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 336 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3678 as it looked roughly 336 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 3714Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 3713Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 3670Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 3784Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 3728Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 3651 NED01Elliptical27 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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