NGC 3661
NGC 3661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3661 as it looked roughly 312 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 2856Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 695Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2889Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3823Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 3688Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3775Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 695Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2889Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3823Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 3688Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3775Lenticular26 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).