IC 3202

IC 3202

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
217k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3202 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 3276Elliptical33 million ly
apart
IC 3411Barred spiral62 million ly
apart
IC 3204Barred spiral79 million ly
apart
IC 3304Galaxy96 million ly
apart
IC 3610Barred spiral140 million ly
apart
IC 3728Barred spiral160 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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