NGC 3454
NGC 3454
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3454 as it looked roughly 51 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 3455Spiral800,000 ly
apartNGC 3447BIrregular1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 3457Elliptical2.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3447BIrregular1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3443Spiral1.5 million ly
apartNGC 3447ASpiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 3501Spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 3457Elliptical2.5 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).