NGC 3138
NGC 3138
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
369 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 369 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3138 as it looked roughly 369 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 3058 NED02Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3140Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 3141Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical49 million ly
apartNGC 3133Barred spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3140Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 3141Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical49 million ly
apartNGC 3133Barred spiral56 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).