NGC 3142
NGC 3142
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
247 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 247 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3142 as it looked roughly 247 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 599Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3110Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 597Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 575Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3110Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 603Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 597Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 575Spiral31 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).