NGC 3250C
NGC 3250C
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3250C 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 3250BBarred spiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3256CBarred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 3244Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular9.6 million ly
apartNGC 3261Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 3318BSpiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3256CBarred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 3244Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular9.6 million ly
apartNGC 3261Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 3318BSpiral10 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).