NGC 3942
NGC 3942
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
175 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 175 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3942 as it looked roughly 175 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
IC 743Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3836 NED02Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3660Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4177Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3836 NED02Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3660Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4177Spiral25 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).