NGC 3651 NED01
NGC 3651 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
352 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 352 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3651 NED01 as it looked roughly 352 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 3651 NED02Lenticular3.6 million ly
apartIC 2759Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3678Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3744Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3609Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2759Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3678Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3744Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3609Spiral30 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).