NGC 3880
NGC 3880
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
467 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 467 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3880 as it looked roughly 467 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 3878Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartIC 2960Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2958Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2946Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2960Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2958Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2946Barred spiral20 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).