NGC 3765

NGC 3765

NGC 3765 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 476 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,223 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
476 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
10,223 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3765 as it looked roughly 476 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 3739Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 3745Elliptical38 million ly
apart
IC 710Lenticular39 million ly
apart
NGC 3743Elliptical40 million ly
apart
NGC 3751Elliptical41 million ly
apart
NGC 4021Elliptical43 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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