IC 3016
IC 3016
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
880 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 880 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3016 as it looked roughly 880 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 3055 NED03Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3055 NED01Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2994Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3034Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 3017Barred spiral46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3055 NED01Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 2994Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 4164Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3034Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 3017Barred spiral46 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).