NGC 3920

NGC 3920

NGC 3920 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 170 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 3,609 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
3,609 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3920 as it looked roughly 170 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 3902Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3944Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3815Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3812Elliptical7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3798Lenticular7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3814Galaxy7.8 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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