NGC 3048 NED02
NGC 3048 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
410 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 410 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3048 NED02 as it looked roughly 410 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 568Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 571Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 572Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 570Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 571Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 572Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 570Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral29 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).