NGC 3314A
NGC 3314A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3314A as it looked roughly 130 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 3312Barred spiral2.1 million ly
apartNGC 3390Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2597Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3285BBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3241Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3208Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3390Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2597Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3285BBarred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3241Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3208Spiral15 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).