NGC 3836 NED02
NGC 3836 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
173 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 173 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3836 NED02 as it looked roughly 173 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
IC 743Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3942Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3544Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3497Lenticular27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3942Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3544Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3497Lenticular27 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).