NGC 3461
NGC 3461
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
585 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
87k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 585 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3461 as it looked roughly 585 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 638Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 2628Barred spiral71 million ly
apartIC 666Lenticular76 million ly
apartIC 2649Elliptical84 million ly
apartIC 2713Elliptical84 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular87 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2628Barred spiral71 million ly
apartIC 666Lenticular76 million ly
apartIC 2649Elliptical84 million ly
apartIC 2713Elliptical84 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular87 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).