NGC 3858
NGC 3858
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
270 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 270 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3858 as it looked roughly 270 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 3854Spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3771Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3763Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3791Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3959Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3905Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3771Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3763Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3791Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 3959Spiral13 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).