NGC 3380
NGC 3380
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
34k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3380 as it looked roughly 75 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 2604Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3396Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 3504Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 3395Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 2608Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3396Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 3504Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 3395Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 2608Barred spiral6.3 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).