NGC 3959
NGC 3959
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
267 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 267 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3959 as it looked roughly 267 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 3967Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 747Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 747Elliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral13 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).