IC 3210

IC 3210

IC 3210 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 381 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 73,000 ly, about 73% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 8,186 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
8,186 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3210 as it looked roughly 381 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 3165Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 3402Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 4295Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 3243Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 4514Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 4272Elliptical18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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