NGC 3624
NGC 3624
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
515 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 515 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3624 as it looked roughly 515 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
IC 2813Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2633Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 3490Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2665Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2633Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2683Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 3490Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 2645Lenticular48 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).