NGC 3303 NED01
NGC 3303 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3303 NED01 as it looked roughly 290 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 3303 NED02Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 642Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 635Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 642Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 635Barred spiral23 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).