NGC 3303 NED02
NGC 3303 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
289 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 289 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3303 NED02 as it looked roughly 289 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 3303 NED01Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 642Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 635Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 642Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 635Barred spiral23 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).