NGC 3487
NGC 3487
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3487 as it looked roughly 409 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 3474Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 3473Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3555Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 3551Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 2634Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 668Spiral57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3473Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3555Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 3551Elliptical50 million ly
apartIC 2634Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 668Spiral57 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).