NGC 36
NGC 36
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
175k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 36 as it looked roughly 281 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 7824Spiral9.5 million ly
apartNGC 7818Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 75Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 13Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7781Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7827Lenticular35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7818Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 75Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 13Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7781Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 7827Lenticular35 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).