NGC 3949
NGC 3949
NGC 3949 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is receding from us at about 681 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
10.9
apparent magnitude
681 km/s
receding (RC3)
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). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.