NGC 3786
NGC 3786
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3786 as it looked roughly 125 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 3788Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 3687Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3689Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3701Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3935Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2979Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3687Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3689Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3701Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3935Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2979Lenticular20 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).