NGC 3449
NGC 3449
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3449 as it looked roughly 153 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 3347BBarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3281Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3533Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2580Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3257Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3258EBarred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3281Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3533Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2580Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3257Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3258EBarred spiral16 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).