NGC 3614A
NGC 3614A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3614A as it looked roughly 340 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 3677Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 674Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3478Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 3374Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 731Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3468Lenticular38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 674Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3478Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 3374Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 731Barred spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3468Lenticular38 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).