NGC 3995

NGC 3995

NGC 3995 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 155 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,339 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABm
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
3,339 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3995 as it looked roughly 155 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 3991 NED02Spiral2.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3966Lenticular3.6 million ly
apart
IC 2985Lenticular4.3 million ly
apart
IC 2978Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
IC 2981Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3991 NED01Irregular6.8 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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