NGC 3910

NGC 3910

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
152k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3910 as it looked roughly 365 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 3926BElliptical8.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3925Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 744Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3867Spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 4069Elliptical23 million ly
apart
NGC 4098 NED02Barred spiral25 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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