NGC 3204
NGC 3204
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3204 as it looked roughly 231 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 2550Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3251Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3323Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3251Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3323Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral37 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).