NGC 3083
NGC 3083
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3083 as it looked roughly 299 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 587Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 3093Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3086Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3093Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3086Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral16 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).