NGC 3333
NGC 3333
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
202 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 202 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3333 as it looked roughly 202 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 2573Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3302Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2578Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3302Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2578Spiral25 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).