NGC 3043
NGC 3043
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3043 as it looked roughly 140 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 3102Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 2870Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3398Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3488Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3392Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 2710Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2870Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3398Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3488Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3392Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 2710Barred spiral27 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).