NGC 3570
NGC 3570
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
489 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 489 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3570 as it looked roughly 489 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 3550 NED01Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 3550 NED02Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3574Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3536Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3563BLenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3550 NED02Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 3563ALenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 3574Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3536Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3563BLenticular21 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).