NGC 3361
NGC 3361
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3361 as it looked roughly 90 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 630Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 3637Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3636Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3672Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3292Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 688Spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3637Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3636Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3672Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3292Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 688Spiral18 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).