NGC 3095

NGC 3095

NGC 3095 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia about 129 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,849 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude
2,849 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3095 as it looked roughly 129 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 3082Elliptical3.1 million ly
apart
IC 2526Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
IC 2539Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3038Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apart
IC 2536Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
IC 2534Lenticular6.2 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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