NGC 3925
NGC 3925
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
375 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 375 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3925 as it looked roughly 375 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 3910Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 744Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3926BElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4098 NED02Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4069Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 4091Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 744Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3926BElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4098 NED02Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4069Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 4091Barred spiral29 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).