NGC 3285B
NGC 3285B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
141 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 141 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3285B as it looked roughly 141 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 2597Elliptical2.2 million ly
apartNGC 3312Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 3208Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 3314ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2580Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3390Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3312Barred spiral9.1 million ly
apartNGC 3208Spiral9.4 million ly
apartNGC 3314ABarred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2580Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3390Barred spiral15 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).