NGC 3281B
NGC 3281B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3281B as it looked roughly 113 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 3260Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular3.9 million ly
apartIC 2584Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartNGC 3281ALenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3258CSpiral8.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular3.9 million ly
apartIC 2584Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartNGC 3281ALenticular6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3258CSpiral8.2 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).