NGC 3765
NGC 3765
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
476 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3765 as it looked roughly 476 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 3739Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3745Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 710Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 3743Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 3751Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 4021Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3745Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 710Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 3743Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 3751Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 4021Elliptical43 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).