NGC 3770
NGC 3770
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3770 as it looked roughly 150 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 3740Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 3894Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3690BBarred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3725Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3894Elliptical3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3895Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 3963Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3690BBarred spiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 3725Barred spiral7.4 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).