NGC 3651 NED02
NGC 3651 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3651 NED02 as it looked roughly 355 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 NED01Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 2759Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3609Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3678Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3744Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2759Elliptical8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3670Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3609Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3678Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3744Spiral31 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).