NGC 3094
NGC 3094
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
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.
Nearest galaxies
NGC 2919Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2906Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3107Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3153Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 591Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2894Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2906Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3107Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3153Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 591Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2894Spiral23 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).