NGC 3750

NGC 3750

NGC 3750 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo about 423 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,064 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
9,064 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3750 as it looked roughly 423 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 3746Spiral2.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3748Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3754Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3758Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3751Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 3753Barred spiral17 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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