NGC 3914
NGC 3914
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
285 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 285 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3914 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 3843Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 4029Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 724Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3849Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 756Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3833Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4029Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 724Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3849Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 756Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3833Spiral20 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).