NGC 3060
NGC 3060
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
176 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 176 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3060 as it looked roughly 176 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 3053Spiral2.6 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2954Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 2916Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2874Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3221Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3075Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2954Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 2916Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2874Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3221Spiral30 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).