NGC 3106

NGC 3106

NGC 3106 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 289 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,203 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
6,203 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3106 as it looked roughly 289 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 3116Elliptical8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3071Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 3068Elliptical16 million ly
apart
IC 2542Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 2540Elliptical17 million ly
apart
IC 2519Elliptical18 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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