NGC 3040 NED01
NGC 3040 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3040 NED01 as it looked roughly 325 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 2994Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 582Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2941Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 2930Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3040 NED02Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2991Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 582Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2941Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 2930Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3040 NED02Lenticular34 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).