NGC 3443
NGC 3443
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
53 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 53 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3443 as it looked roughly 53 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 3455Spiral820,000 ly
apartNGC 3457Elliptical1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3454Barred spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral2.2 million ly
apartNGC 3447BIrregular2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral3.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3457Elliptical1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3454Barred spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral2.2 million ly
apartNGC 3447BIrregular2.5 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral3.2 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).