NGC 3280A
NGC 3280A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
396 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 396 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3280A as it looked roughly 396 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 3280CElliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3296Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3280BLenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3297Lenticular33 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3296Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3280BLenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3297Lenticular33 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral35 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).