NGC 3227
NGC 3227
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3227 as it looked roughly 51 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 610Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 3185Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 3447BIrregular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3454Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3185Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 3447BIrregular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3454Barred spiral6.9 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).