IC 3110

IC 3110

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
525 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 525 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3110 as it looked roughly 525 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 3405Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
IC 3729Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
NGC 4135Spiral62 million ly
apart
NGC 4137Spiral63 million ly
apart
IC 3828Spiral67 million ly
apart
IC 3772Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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