NGC 3093

NGC 3093

NGC 3093 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 286 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,099 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
6,099 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3093 as it looked roughly 286 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 3090Elliptical1.9 million ly
apart
IC 587Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3092Lenticular8.0 million ly
apart
IC 592Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
IC 593Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 3047AElliptical12 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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