NGC 3246
NGC 3246
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3246 as it looked roughly 100 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 3292Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2966Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3023Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3055Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 630Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 2962Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2966Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3023Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3055Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 630Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 2962Lenticular20 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).