NGC 3360
NGC 3360
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
394 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 394 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3360 as it looked roughly 394 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 654Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 3452Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical23 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3296Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3452Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical23 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3296Elliptical31 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).