NGC 3013
NGC 3013
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3013 as it looked roughly 377 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
IC 2491Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 2521Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2473Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2544Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2478Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 2476Elliptical39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2521Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2473Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2544Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2478Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 2476Elliptical39 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).