NGC 3258B
NGC 3258B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3258B as it looked roughly 100 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 2587Elliptical2.2 million ly
apartNGC 3281ALenticular6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3260Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3281ALenticular6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3260Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular17 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).