NGC 3089

NGC 3089

NGC 3089 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 123 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,623 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
123 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
2,623 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 123 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3089 as it looked roughly 123 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 3051Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
IC 2537Spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3108Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3084Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3078Elliptical7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3082Elliptical7.9 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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