NGC 343
NGC 343
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
795 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
166k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 795 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 343 as it looked roughly 795 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 1587Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular38 million ly
apartIC 1573Spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular94 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1588Lenticular38 million ly
apartIC 1573Spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular94 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).