IC 3362
IC 3362
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
311 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 311 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3362 as it looked roughly 311 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 3300Spiral4.6 million ly
apartIC 3439Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 3421Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 780Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4555Elliptical11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3439Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 3421Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 780Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4555Elliptical11 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).