NGC 3065
NGC 3065
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
94 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 94 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3065 as it looked roughly 94 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 3066Spiral91,000 ly
apartNGC 2634ABarred spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 2636Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3329Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2633Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3752Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2634ABarred spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 2636Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3329Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2633Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3752Spiral12 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).