NGC 3250A
NGC 3250A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3250A as it looked roughly 345 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 2538Spiral93 million ly
apartIC 2576Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3378Spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular130 million ly
apartNGC 4219ABarred spiral130 million ly
apartNGC 3025Lenticular140 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2576Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3378Spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular130 million ly
apartNGC 4219ABarred spiral130 million ly
apartNGC 3025Lenticular140 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).