NGC 3250B
NGC 3250B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3250B as it looked roughly 120 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 3250CSpiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3256CBarred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 3261Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 3244Spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 3318BSpiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3256CBarred spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 3261Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 3244Spiral9.7 million ly
apartNGC 3318BSpiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular10 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).