NGC 3075
NGC 3075
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
167 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 167 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3075 as it looked roughly 167 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 3053Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 3060Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2954Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 2939Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 601Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2911Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3060Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2954Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 2939Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 601Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2911Lenticular26 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).