NGC 3993
NGC 3993
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
225 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 225 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3993 as it looked roughly 225 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 3997Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 746Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 4000Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3987Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4018Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3989Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 746Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 4000Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3987Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4018Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3989Barred 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).