NGC 3907B
NGC 3907B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3907B as it looked roughly 285 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 3979Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 754Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4006Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3907Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4044Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 753Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 754Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4006Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3907Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 4044Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 753Lenticular18 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).