NGC 3691
NGC 3691
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3691 as it looked roughly 50 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
IC 2767Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 3686Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 3684Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartIC 2782Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 3666Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 3608Elliptical6.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3686Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apartNGC 3684Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartIC 2782Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 3666Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 3608Elliptical6.1 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).