NGC 3967
NGC 3967
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
263 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 263 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3967 as it looked roughly 263 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 747Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 3959Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3959Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral15 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).