NGC 3396
NGC 3396
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3396 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 3395Spiral700,000 ly
apartIC 2604Barred spiral770,000 ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apartIC 2608Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 3424Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2604Barred spiral770,000 ly
apartNGC 3430Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 3381Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apartIC 2608Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 3424Barred spiral5.4 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).