NGC 3655
NGC 3655
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
30k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3655 as it looked roughly 70 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 3626Lenticular2.3 million ly
apartIC 2763Spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 2781Irregular5.7 million ly
apartIC 700 NED03Irregular6.3 million ly
apartIC 700 NED01Irregular6.5 million ly
apartIC 700 NED02Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2763Spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 2781Irregular5.7 million ly
apartIC 700 NED03Irregular6.3 million ly
apartIC 700 NED01Irregular6.5 million ly
apartIC 700 NED02Spiral6.9 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).