A galaxy that is 3,400 billion light-years away from Earth is likely moving away from us at a significant speed due to the expansion of the universe. According to Hubble's Law, the recessional velocity of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us. At such extreme distances, the galaxy could be receding at a speed approaching or even exceeding the speed of light due to the expansion of space itself. However, since nothing can locally exceed the speed of light, this recession is a result of the metric expansion of space rather than the galaxy moving through space.
When you see a galaxy that is 8 billion light years away, the light that's dribbling into your eye left that galaxy 8 billion years ago, and has been traveling toward you ever since then. If you just happen to see the galaxy explode or turn blue while you're watching it, you'll know that it actually exploded or turned blue 8 billion years ago. Similarly, if the galaxy explodes or turns green tonight, you won't know about that for another 8 billion years from tonight.
The Black Eye Galaxy [See Link] has a redshift of 0.001361, so it is moving away from us. Currently at 24 million light years from Earth
If a galaxy is moving towards the Earth, its spectrum will be blueshifted. This means that the wavelengths of its emitted light are compressed, resulting in a shift towards the blue end of the spectrum.
The galaxy MACS0647-JD is 13.3 billion light-years away from the Earth and was visible to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Einstein's cross is located about 8 billion light-years away from Earth. It is a gravitational lensing phenomenon where the light from a distant quasar is bent by the gravitational field of a foreground galaxy, creating multiple images of the quasar.
Yes, it's the most distant dwarf galaxy 13.2 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. PCB2012 3020 in the MACS J1149+2223 galaxy cluster).
Yes, it's the most distant spiral galaxy 10.7 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. BX442 in the Pegasus constellation).
Yes, it's the most distant dwarf galaxy 13.3 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. CZC2013 MACS0647-JD1 in the MACS J0647+7015 galaxy cluster).
Yes, it's the most distant irregular galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. GN-z11 in the Ursa Major constellation).
Yes, it's the most distant irregular galaxy 12.9 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. OOM2012 GN 108036 in the Ursa Major constellation).
Yes, it's the most distant dwarf galaxy 13.1 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. MDC2010 1721 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field).
The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.537 million light-years away from Earth. It is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and is on a collision course with our galaxy, expected to merge in about 4.5 billion years.
45 billion light years, if you define the size of the visible universe as the present physical distance (in terms of the “co-moving coordinates” which are stationary with respect to the cosmic microwave background) to the farthest things we can see.
The galaxy MACS0647-JD is the furthest star in the gallery that has been viewed from the earth. It is 3.3 billion light-years from Earth.
Yes, it's the most distant spiral galaxy 13 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. SB-WF 1510-1270 in the Hubble Deep Field South).
The UDF 7556 galaxy (one of the galaxies in the HUDF field) is a spiral galaxy 6000 million light-years from Earth in the Fornax constellation, and is 100,000 light-years in diameter, and contains about 100 billion stars.
Yes, it's the most distant lenticular galaxy 13 billion light-years from Earth (i.e. BBG 3179 (a.k.a. HUDF-JD2) in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field).