NGC 3001
NGC 3001 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 115 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,220 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 115 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3001 as it looked roughly 115 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.
apartIC 2533Elliptical6.4 million ly
apartNGC 3100Lenticular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 2904Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartNGC 3051Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 3084Spiral8.8 million ly
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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).