NGC 3452
NGC 3452
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
385 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 385 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3452 as it looked roughly 385 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 654Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3537 NED01Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 650Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3537 NED01Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical40 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).