IC 3080
IC 3080
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
354 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 354 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3080 as it looked roughly 354 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 3091Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartIC 775Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3062Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4186Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 775Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3062Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 4186Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral14 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).