NGC 3038
NGC 3038
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3038 as it looked roughly 130 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 2510Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apartIC 2513Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3095Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 2534Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartIC 2532Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 2526Lenticular6.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2513Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3095Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 2534Lenticular5.8 million ly
apartIC 2532Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 2526Lenticular6.5 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).