NGC 3534
NGC 3534
NGC 3534 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 307 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 307 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
307 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
129k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 307 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3534 as it looked roughly 307 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 3475Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3615Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 3618Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3713Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 3710Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3615Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 3618Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3713Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular34 million ly
apartNGC 3710Elliptical34 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).