IC 3003

IC 3003

IC 3003 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 365 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 85,000 ly, about 85% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 365 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3003 as it looked roughly 365 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 4113Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4031Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 3002Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 3001Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
IC 3212Spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 3263Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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