NGC 3764 NED01

NGC 3764 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3764 NED01 as it looked roughly 157 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 3768Lenticular920,000 ly
apart
NGC 3790Lenticular3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3802Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 3801Lenticular5.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3806Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3800Spiral7.8 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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