NGC 3392

NGC 3392

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
151 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 151 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3392 as it looked roughly 151 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 3394Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3668Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 3725Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 3762Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 3740Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 3770Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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