NGC 3407

NGC 3407

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3407 as it looked roughly 234 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 3435Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4161Barred spiral43 million ly
apart
NGC 3759Lenticular45 million ly
apart
NGC 2961Spiral46 million ly
apart
NGC 2959Spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 4195Spiral50 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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