NGC 3120
NGC 3120
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3120 as it looked roughly 131 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 2534Lenticular1.9 million ly
apartIC 2532Spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 2536Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3095Spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 2539Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 3157Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2532Spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 2536Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3095Spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 2539Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 3157Barred spiral7.0 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).