NGC 3822

NGC 3822

NGC 3822 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 289 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,132 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
6,132 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3822 as it looked roughly 289 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 3819Elliptical820,000 ly
apart
NGC 3820Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3817Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
IC 727Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3833Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
IC 2941Barred spiral7.6 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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