NGC 3074
NGC 3074
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3074 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
IC 2518Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartIC 2516Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2515Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2831Elliptical35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2516Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2515Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2831Elliptical35 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).