NGC 3720
NGC 3720
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
277 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 277 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3720 as it looked roughly 277 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 3719Barred spiral240,000 ly
apartNGC 3662Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3849Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 3907Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 3907BBarred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 716Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3662Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3849Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 3907Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 3907BBarred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 716Barred spiral26 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).