NGC 3086

NGC 3086

NGC 3086 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 314 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,766 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
314 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
9,766 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 314 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3086 as it looked roughly 314 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 3083Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 587Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 594Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 590 NED02Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 3047BElliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 3007Lenticular27 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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