NGC 3735

NGC 3735

NGC 3735 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 126 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,671 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
126 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
2,671 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 126 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3735 as it looked roughly 126 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 3516Lenticular7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3364Spiral9.3 million ly
apart
NGC 4108BSpiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 3348Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 4108Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 4210Barred spiral13 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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