NGC 3704
NGC 3704
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
248 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 248 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3704 as it looked roughly 248 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 3707Elliptical200,000 ly
apartNGC 3696Spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 3667Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3663Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 681Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3667ABarred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3696Spiral4.4 million ly
apartNGC 3667Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3663Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 681Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3667ABarred spiral14 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).