NGC 3134
NGC 3134
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3134 as it looked roughly 255 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 584Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3070Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3069Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 607Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3131Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 616Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3070Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3069Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 607Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3131Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 616Spiral31 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).