NGC 3861
NGC 3861
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3861 as it looked roughly 236 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 3873Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3859Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4048Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 3860Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 746Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3993Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3859Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4048Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 3860Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 746Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3993Barred spiral27 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).