NGC 3001

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

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
115 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
2,220 km/s
receding (RC3)

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.

Nearest galaxies
IC 2531Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
IC 2533Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3100Lenticular6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2904Elliptical7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3051Elliptical8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3084Spiral8.8 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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