NGC 3574

NGC 3574

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
474 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 474 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3574 as it looked roughly 474 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 3563BLenticular8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3552Elliptical14 million ly
apart
NGC 3570Lenticular15 million ly
apart
NGC 3527Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 3550 NED01Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 3550 NED02Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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