NGC 3620
NGC 3620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3620 as it looked roughly 83 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 3149Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3136BElliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3136Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 2822Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 2788Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3136BElliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 2836Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3136Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 2822Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 2788Spiral19 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).