NGC 3550 NED02
NGC 3550 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
486 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 486 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3550 NED02 as it looked roughly 486 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 3550 NED01Elliptical6,400 ly
apartNGC 3570Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 3574Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3536Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3552Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3570Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 3574Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3536Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3552Elliptical23 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).