NGC 3934

NGC 3934

NGC 3934 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 169 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 3,626 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
169 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
3,626 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 169 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3934 as it looked roughly 169 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 3933Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 4014Lenticular5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3803Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3806Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 3801Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 3790Lenticular12 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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