NGC 3074

NGC 3074

NGC 3074 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 239 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,102 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
5,102 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3074 as it looked roughly 239 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 2518Elliptical8.0 million ly
apart
IC 2516Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 3126Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 2561Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
IC 2515Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 2831Elliptical35 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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