NGC 3700
NGC 3700
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
424 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 424 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3700 as it looked roughly 424 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 2925Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 2933Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3855Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3542Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical31 million ly
apartIC 729Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2933Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3855Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 3542Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical31 million ly
apartIC 729Lenticular32 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).