NGC 3136
NGC 3136
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
10.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3136 as it looked roughly 75 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 2822Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartNGC 2788Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 3136BElliptical8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 2554Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 2788BBarred spiral9.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2788Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 3136BElliptical8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 2554Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 2788BBarred spiral9.5 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).