NGC 3070

NGC 3070

NGC 3070 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo about 251 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,392 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
251 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
5,392 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 251 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3070 as it looked roughly 251 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 584Spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3069Spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3134Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 548Lenticular24 million ly
apart
IC 552Lenticular27 million ly
apart
NGC 2948Barred spiral31 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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