NGC 3832

NGC 3832

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3832 as it looked roughly 321 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 3808ASpiral9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3761Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 3808BBarred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3884Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 3883Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 739Spiral14 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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