NGC 3891

NGC 3891

NGC 3891 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 293 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,196 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
293 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
6,196 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 293 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3891 as it looked roughly 293 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 3988Elliptical20 million ly
apart
IC 2967Elliptical22 million ly
apart
NGC 3897Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 3971Lenticular25 million ly
apart
NGC 3781Lenticular30 million ly
apart
NGC 3911Spiral31 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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