NGC 3754

NGC 3754

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3754 as it looked roughly 418 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 3746Spiral1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 3758Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3750Elliptical4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3748Lenticular7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3753Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3751Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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