NGC 3537 NED01
NGC 3537 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
387 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 387 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3537 NED01 as it looked roughly 387 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 3452Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 654Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3679Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral42 million ly
apartIC 631Elliptical57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 654Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 650Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3679Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral42 million ly
apartIC 631Elliptical57 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).