NGC 3650
NGC 3650
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
206 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 206 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3650 as it looked roughly 206 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 3646Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 3649Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2779Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2762Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3983Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 3989Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3649Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2779Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2762Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3983Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 3989Barred spiral33 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).