NGC 3742
NGC 3742
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3742 as it looked roughly 130 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 3749Spiral380,000 ly
apartNGC 3783Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3903Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3557BElliptical12 million ly
apartIC 2977Irregular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3783Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3706Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3903Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3557BElliptical12 million ly
apartIC 2977Irregular13 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).