IC 3175
IC 3175
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
274 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 274 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3175 as it looked roughly 274 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 3156Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 4307ASpiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 3188Spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 3069Spiral6.4 million ly
apartIC 3060Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 771Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4307ASpiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 3188Spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 3069Spiral6.4 million ly
apartIC 3060Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 771Barred spiral17 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).