NGC 3534B
NGC 3534B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
531 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
142k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 531 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3534B as it looked roughly 531 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 2626Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apartNGC 3536Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3570Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 3550 NED02Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 3550 NED01Elliptical49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3536Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3570Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 3550 NED02Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 3550 NED01Elliptical49 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).