NGC 3697
NGC 3697
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
295 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 295 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3697 as it looked roughly 295 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 701Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 3710Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 707Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3805Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3837Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3841Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3710Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 707Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3805Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3837Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3841Elliptical19 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).