NGC 3602
NGC 3602
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
283 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 283 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3602 as it looked roughly 283 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 3598Elliptical2.0 million ly
apartIC 2689Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2804Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2708Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 701Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2826Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2689Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 2804Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2708Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 701Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2826Barred spiral25 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).