NGC 3785

NGC 3785

NGC 3785 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo about 420 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,157 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
9,157 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3785 as it looked roughly 420 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 3826Elliptical6.1 million ly
apart
IC 2956Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 710Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 3739Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 3746Spiral32 million ly
apart
NGC 3754Barred spiral32 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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