NGC 3810

NGC 3810

NGC 3810 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 46 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 958 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
46 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
10.8
apparent magnitude
958 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 46 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3810 as it looked roughly 46 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.

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NGC 3705Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
IC 2782Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
IC 2828Irregular4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3666Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apart
IC 2767Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3691Barred spiral6.4 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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