NGC 3016

NGC 3016

NGC 3016 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 417 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,869 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
417 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
8,869 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 417 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3016 as it looked roughly 417 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 3019Spiral3.3 million ly
apart
IC 577Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 578Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 568Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 3048 NED02Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 571Barred spiral30 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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