IC 3075
IC 3075
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
299 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 299 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3075 as it looked roughly 299 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 772Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 4213Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 795Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4146Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3084Galaxy18 million ly
apartIC 3119Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4213Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 795Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 4146Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3084Galaxy18 million ly
apartIC 3119Barred spiral19 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).