NGC 3895

NGC 3895

NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 150 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,159 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
3,159 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3895 as it looked roughly 150 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 3894Elliptical1.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3963Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3770Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3958Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3740Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3690BBarred spiral8.6 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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