NGC 3907

NGC 3907

NGC 3907 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 268 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,034 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
6,034 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3907 as it looked roughly 268 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 4006Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 3979Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 754Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 3907BBarred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 2974Spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 716Barred spiral20 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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