NGC 3664A

NGC 3664A

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sm
62 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
11k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 62 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3664A as it looked roughly 62 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 3640Elliptical960,000 ly
apart
NGC 3664Barred spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3630Lenticular7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 3526Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 676Lenticular8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3524Lenticular10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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