NGC 3520
NGC 3520
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
279k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3520 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 734 NED01Elliptical260 million ly
apartIC 2593Lenticular310 million ly
apartIC 2575Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 2570Barred spiral360 million ly
apartIC 659Elliptical380 million ly
apartNGC 3965Lenticular380 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2593Lenticular310 million ly
apartIC 2575Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 2570Barred spiral360 million ly
apartIC 659Elliptical380 million ly
apartNGC 3965Lenticular380 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).