NGC 3149
NGC 3149
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3149 as it looked roughly 94 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 3620Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3136AIrregular21 million ly
apartIC 2051Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2142Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3136BElliptical24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3136AIrregular21 million ly
apartIC 2051Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2142Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3136BElliptical24 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).