NGC 3701
NGC 3701
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3701 as it looked roughly 130 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 3689Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 3786Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3788Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3687Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3827Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3786Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3788Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3687Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3827Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4162Barred spiral22 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).