IC 3077
IC 3077
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
21k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3077 as it looked roughly 66 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 4377Elliptical2.6 million ly
apartNGC 4262Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartIC 781Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartIC 3101Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 3192Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartIC 3096Spiral3.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4262Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartIC 781Elliptical2.9 million ly
apartIC 3101Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 3192Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartIC 3096Spiral3.6 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).