NGC 3378
NGC 3378
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
229 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 229 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3378 as it looked roughly 229 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 3276Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 3333Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 2573Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 3314BSpiral50 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral52 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3333Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2548Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 2573Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 3314BSpiral50 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral52 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).