NGC 3983
NGC 3983
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3983 as it looked roughly 196 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 4011Spiral4.6 million ly
apartNGC 3999Elliptical4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED01Elliptical7.7 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED02Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4022Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4023Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3999Elliptical4.9 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED01Elliptical7.7 million ly
apartNGC 4015 NED02Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4022Lenticular8.6 million ly
apartNGC 4023Barred spiral10 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).