NGC 3066

NGC 3066

NGC 3066 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 94 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 31,000 ly, about 31% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,010 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
2,010 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3066 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 3065Lenticular91,000 ly
apart
NGC 2634ABarred spiral9.8 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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