NGC 3347A
NGC 3347A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3347A as it looked roughly 125 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 3347CSpiral460,000 ly
apartNGC 3347Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3281DBarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3258CSpiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3289Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281CLenticular7.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3347Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3281DBarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3258CSpiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3289Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281CLenticular7.3 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).