IC 3376

IC 3376

IC 3376 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 332 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 84,000 ly, about 84% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,104 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
7,104 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3376 as it looked roughly 332 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 3336Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
IC 3406Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
IC 3407Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
IC 3299Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
IC 3454Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 3502Barred spiral8.0 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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