NGC 3280B
NGC 3280B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
416 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 416 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3280B as it looked roughly 416 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 3296Elliptical1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3297Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3139Lenticular44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3297Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3139Lenticular44 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).