NGC 3473
NGC 3473
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3473 as it looked roughly 426 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 3474Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3487Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 668Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3555Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 667Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 3551Elliptical45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3487Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 668Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3555Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 667Elliptical44 million ly
apartNGC 3551Elliptical45 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).