NGC 3788
NGC 3788
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
121 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3788 as it looked roughly 121 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 3786Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 3687Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3689Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 777Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3701Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3694Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3687Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3689Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 777Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3701Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3694Elliptical20 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).