NGC 3903
NGC 3903
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3903 as it looked roughly 139 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
IC 2977Irregular3.0 million ly
apartNGC 3783Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartNGC 3742Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3749Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4112Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3783Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical9.8 million ly
apartNGC 3742Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3749Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4112Barred spiral16 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).