NGC 3060

NGC 3060

NGC 3060 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 176 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,745 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
176 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
3,745 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 176 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3060 as it looked roughly 176 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 3053Spiral2.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3075Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2954Elliptical13 million ly
apart
NGC 2916Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 2874Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
NGC 3221Spiral30 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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