NGC 360
NGC 360
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
108 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 108 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 360 as it looked roughly 108 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 7697Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 7661Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1532Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5249Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7661Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1532Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5249Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7098Spiral35 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).