NGC 3867
NGC 3867
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
147k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3867 as it looked roughly 350 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 3840Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 732SLenticular12 million ly
apartIC 732NIrregular15 million ly
apartNGC 3875Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 3910Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 3926BElliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 732SLenticular12 million ly
apartIC 732NIrregular15 million ly
apartNGC 3875Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 3910Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 3926BElliptical20 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).