NGC 3216
NGC 3216
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
548 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
273k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 548 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3216 as it looked roughly 548 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 2567Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 638Spiral92 million ly
apartIC 2569Elliptical99 million ly
apartNGC 3350Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 3534BBarred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3461Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 638Spiral92 million ly
apartIC 2569Elliptical99 million ly
apartNGC 3350Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 3534BBarred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3461Barred spiral110 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).