NGC 3456
NGC 3456
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
13.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3456 as it looked roughly 200 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 3459Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 3479Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3422Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3421Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 665Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 647Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3479Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3422Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3421Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 665Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 647Lenticular17 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).