NGC 3492 NED01
NGC 3492 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
521 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 521 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3492 NED01 as it looked roughly 521 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 3492 NED02Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartIC 663Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3490Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 2633Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 648Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 663Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3490Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 2633Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 648Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2665Spiral37 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).