NGC 3010A

NGC 3010A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
23k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3010A as it looked roughly 206 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 3009Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3005Spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3010CSpiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3010Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 3008Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 2998Spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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