NGC 3221
NGC 3221
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3221 as it looked roughly 192 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 3060Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3053Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2550Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2916Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2933Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3053Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2550Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2916Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2933Barred spiral40 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).