NGC 3808A

NGC 3808A

NGC 3808A is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 330 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,189 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
7,189 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3808A as it looked roughly 330 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 3808BBarred spiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3761Elliptical6.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3744Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3832Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3787Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 3883Barred spiral13 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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