NGC 3442
NGC 3442
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
81 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
13k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 81 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3442 as it looked roughly 81 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 2608Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3395Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2604Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3396Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3395Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2604Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3396Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral6.9 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).