NGC 3276
NGC 3276
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3276 as it looked roughly 220 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 3378Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3333Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2573Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 3302Lenticular44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3333Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2573Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 3302Lenticular44 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).