NGC 3435

NGC 3435

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
239 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 239 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3435 as it looked roughly 239 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 3407Elliptical5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3759Lenticular42 million ly
apart
NGC 4161Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
NGC 3759ABarred spiral46 million ly
apart
NGC 3737Lenticular48 million ly
apart
IC 2943Spiral49 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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