NGC 3040 NED02
NGC 3040 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
359 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 359 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3040 NED02 as it looked roughly 359 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 582Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 583Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3088BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2994Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 583Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2991Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3088BBarred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2994Lenticular23 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).