NGC 3094

NGC 3094

NGC 3094 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 43,000 ly, about 43% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,220 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
2,220 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3094 as it looked roughly 110 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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NGC 2919Spiral17 million ly
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NGC 2906Spiral20 million ly
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NGC 3107Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 3153Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 591Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 2894Spiral23 million ly
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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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