NGC 3892

NGC 3892

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3892 as it looked roughly 84 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 3962Elliptical5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3779Barred spiral5.8 million ly
apart
NGC 3732Lenticular6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3818Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 3672Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 4050Spiral9.5 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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