NGC 3716

NGC 3716

NGC 3716 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 309 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,636 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
309 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
6,636 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 309 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3716 as it looked roughly 309 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.

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NGC 3644Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 2757Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 720 NED01Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 720 NED02Lenticular32 million ly
apart
NGC 3567Lenticular33 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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