NGC 3975
NGC 3975
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
467 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 467 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 3975 as it looked roughly 467 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 3978Spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED02Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED01Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED03Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4054 NED02Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED01Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 4054 NED03Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 4172Spiral50 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).