NGC 3069

NGC 3069

NGC 3069 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 246 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,296 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
5,296 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3069 as it looked roughly 246 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 584Spiral3.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3070Elliptical4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3134Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 548Lenticular26 million ly
apart
NGC 2948Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 552Lenticular30 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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