IC 3107

IC 3107

IC 3107 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 340 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,299 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
7,299 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3107 as it looked roughly 340 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
IC 3151Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 3209Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 3170Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 3425Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 4325Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 4410CLenticular19 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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