NGC 3349
NGC 3349
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
384 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 384 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3349 as it looked roughly 384 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 3362Spiral3.0 million ly
apartIC 634Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3341Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 3326Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3337Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 636Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 634Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3341Galaxy12 million ly
apartNGC 3326Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3337Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 636Barred spiral19 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).