IC 3474
IC 3474
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
70 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 70 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3474 as it looked roughly 70 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
NGC 4517ASpiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 4527Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4430Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 4303Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 4266Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4666Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4527Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4430Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartNGC 4303Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 4266Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4666Spiral5.9 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).