NGC 3126

NGC 3126

NGC 3126 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 239 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 220,000 ly, about 2.2 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,144 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
216k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
5,144 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3126 as it looked roughly 239 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 3074Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 3204Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 2550Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 2518Elliptical24 million ly
apart
IC 2516Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 3251Barred spiral31 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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