NGC 3320
NGC 3320
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3320 as it looked roughly 106 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 3595Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 598Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3614Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3583Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3445Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3225Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 598Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3614Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3583Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3445Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3225Spiral21 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).