NGC 3762

NGC 3762

NGC 3762 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 160 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,463 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
3,463 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3762 as it looked roughly 160 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 3809Lenticular5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3725Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3668Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3740Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3835AElliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3770Barred spiral11 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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