NGC 2957A
NGC 2957A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2957A as it looked roughly 312 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 2963Barred spiral240,000 ly
apartNGC 2957 NED01Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 3144Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3343Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 2892Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 3562Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2957 NED01Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 3144Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3343Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 2892Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 3562Elliptical34 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).