NGC 3683

NGC 3683

NGC 3683 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 80 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 41,000 ly, about 41% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,656 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
1,656 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3683 as it looked roughly 80 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 3610Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3669Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3642Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3543Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3619Lenticular7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3458Lenticular8.1 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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