NGC 3061

NGC 3061

NGC 3061 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 114 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 52,000 ly, about 52% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 114 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3061 as it looked roughly 114 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 2938Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 2389Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 529Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2634Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 2551Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 2550Barred spiral15 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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