NGC 3808B

NGC 3808B

NGC 3808B is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 333 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 73,000 ly, about 73% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 333 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
333 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 333 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3808B as it looked roughly 333 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 3808ASpiral3.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3744Spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3761Elliptical8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3832Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 732NIrregular14 million ly
apart
NGC 3883Barred spiral14 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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