NGC 3639
NGC 3639
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3639 as it looked roughly 250 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 2919Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3859Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3873Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 3816Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3860Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3861Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3859Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3873Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 3816Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3860Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3861Barred spiral28 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).