NGC 3800
NGC 3800
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
154 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 154 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3800 as it looked roughly 154 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 3799Barred spiral60,000 ly
apartNGC 3853Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3802Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3768Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 3764 NED01Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 3790Lenticular8.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3853Elliptical5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3802Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 3768Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 3764 NED01Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 3790Lenticular8.5 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).