NGC 3800

NGC 3800

NGC 3800 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 154 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,457 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
3,457 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3800 as it looked roughly 154 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 3799Barred spiral60,000 ly
apart
NGC 3853Elliptical5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3802Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3768Lenticular7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3764 NED01Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3790Lenticular8.5 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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