IC 3401
IC 3401
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
905 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
17.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 905 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3401 as it looked roughly 905 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 3372Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 3337Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3395Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3394Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 3317Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 3479Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3337Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3395Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 3394Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 3317Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 3479Barred spiral32 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).