IC 3053
IC 3053
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
701 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 701 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3053 as it looked roughly 701 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 3111Spiral72 million ly
apartIC 3434Barred spiral77 million ly
apartIC 3410Elliptical78 million ly
apartIC 3357Barred spiral79 million ly
apartIC 3236Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 3505Barred spiral83 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3434Barred spiral77 million ly
apartIC 3410Elliptical78 million ly
apartIC 3357Barred spiral79 million ly
apartIC 3236Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 3505Barred spiral83 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).