NGC 3038

NGC 3038

NGC 3038 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 130 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,686 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
2,686 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3038 as it looked roughly 130 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 2510Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
IC 2513Spiral4.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3095Spiral5.3 million ly
apart
IC 2534Lenticular5.8 million ly
apart
IC 2532Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
IC 2526Lenticular6.5 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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