IC 3021
IC 3021
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABm
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3021 as it looked roughly 119 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 4193Spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 4078Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartIC 3049Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3063Spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 4388Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4067Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4078Lenticular6.0 million ly
apartIC 3049Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3063Spiral7.1 million ly
apartNGC 4388Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 4067Barred spiral8.3 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).