NGC 3065

NGC 3065

NGC 3065 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 51,000 ly, about 51% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,001 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
2,001 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3065 as it looked roughly 94 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 3066Spiral91,000 ly
apart
NGC 2634ABarred spiral9.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2636Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 3329Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2633Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3752Spiral12 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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