NGC 3568
NGC 3568
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3568 as it looked roughly 114 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 3564Lenticular340,000 ly
apartNGC 3573Lenticular2.3 million ly
apartNGC 3347CSpiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3347ABarred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3573Lenticular2.3 million ly
apartNGC 3347CSpiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3347ABarred spiral16 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).