NGC 3136B
NGC 3136B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3136B as it looked roughly 83 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 3136Elliptical8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 2788Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3136AIrregular11 million ly
apartNGC 2822Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3620Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2836Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 2788Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3136AIrregular11 million ly
apartNGC 2822Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3620Barred spiral15 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).