NGC 3405 NED02
NGC 3405 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3405 NED02 as it looked roughly 288 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 3426Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 642Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED01Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED02Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED01Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 642Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 3405 NED01Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 639Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED02Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3303 NED01Barred spiral18 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).