NGC 3635
NGC 3635
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3635 as it looked roughly 325 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 690Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3638Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3702Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3688Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 695Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2910Lenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3638Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3702Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3688Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 695Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2910Lenticular29 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).