NGC 3405 NED01
NGC 3405 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
304 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 304 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3405 NED01 as it looked roughly 304 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
IC 639Barred spiral6.1 million ly
apartIC 635Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3399Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED01Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 635Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3399Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED02Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3426Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED01Barred spiral23 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).