NGC 3953
NGC 3953
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
49 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
10.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 49 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3953 as it looked roughly 49 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 3992Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartNGC 3729Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4100Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 3998Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3982Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3718Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3729Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4100Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 3998Lenticular3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3982Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3718Spiral3.9 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).