Galaxy
The Hamburger Galaxy
Also NGC 3628 · Sarah's Galaxy
An edge-on spiral galaxy in the Leo Triplet, with a warped disc and a long tidal tail.
Measured
- Distance
- 34.1 million light-years
- Size
- about 128,000 light-years across (approximate)
- Constellation
- Leo
- Position (J2000)
- RA 11h 20m 17s, Dec +13.59°
How far, from the Sun
34.1 million light-years. To cross it:
- Light34.2 million years
- Voyager 1's speed607 billion years
- Driving at 100 km/h369 trillion years
Voyager 1 at the speed it moved outward over the year to 2026-10-25 (JPL Horizons). Driving: nonstop, never refuelling.
Facts
- A tail of stars about 300,000 light-years long trails from it, pulled out by its neighbours.
- It is moving away from us at about 850 km/s (NASA/IPAC NED).
Where this comes from
- Cosmicflows-3, Tully, Courtois & Sorce 2016, AJ 152, 50 (10.47 Mpc)
- This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, CDS, Strasbourg, France (Wenger et al. 2000, A&AS 143, 9).
- This research has made use of the VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France (DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier).
Every catalogue Ouranos draws is credited on the credits page.