NGC 3557B
NGC 3557B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
133 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 133 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3557B as it looked roughly 133 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 3557Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 3606Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 3742Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3749Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3533Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3606Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 3742Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3749Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3533Spiral13 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).