NGC 3864

NGC 3864

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3864 as it looked roughly 319 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 3834Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3844Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3884Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3787Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 3883Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 3875Lenticular13 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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