NGC 3025
NGC 3025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
394 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
182k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 394 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3025 as it looked roughly 394 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 2996Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 3141Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 3140Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 2956Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 542Lenticular72 million ly
apartNGC 3058 NED02Spiral73 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3141Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 3140Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 2956Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 542Lenticular72 million ly
apartNGC 3058 NED02Spiral73 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).