NGC 3080
NGC 3080
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
492 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 492 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3080 as it looked roughly 492 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 569Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED01Irregular40 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 3217Spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 3253Barred spiral70 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3048 NED01Irregular40 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 3217Spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 3253Barred spiral70 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical70 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).