NGC 3280C
NGC 3280C
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3280C as it looked roughly 400 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 3280AElliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3296Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3280BLenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3297Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 654Lenticular37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3296Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3280BLenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3297Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 654Lenticular37 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).