NGC 3683A
NGC 3683A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
113 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 113 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3683A as it looked roughly 113 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 3780Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3888Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3835Spiral7.1 million ly
apartMedusa Galaxy MergerBarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4384Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3471Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3888Spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3835Spiral7.1 million ly
apartMedusa Galaxy MergerBarred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4384Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3471Barred spiral18 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).