NGC 3080

NGC 3080

NGC 3080 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 492 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,580 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
492 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
10,580 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 492 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3080 as it looked roughly 492 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.

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IC 569Elliptical26 million ly
apart
NGC 3048 NED01Irregular40 million ly
apart
IC 596Barred spiral59 million ly
apart
NGC 3217Spiral68 million ly
apart
NGC 3253Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
IC 613Elliptical70 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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