NGC 3302
NGC 3302
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
185 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 185 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3302 as it looked roughly 185 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 2578Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3269Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3271Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 3267Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3336Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2582Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3269Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3271Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 3267Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3336Spiral15 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).