IC 3316
IC 3316
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
447 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 447 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3316 as it looked roughly 447 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 3559Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3348Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3491Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3296Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 4375Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 3533Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3348Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3491Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3296Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 4375Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 3533Spiral37 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).