IC 3475
IC 3475
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
120 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 120 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3475 as it looked roughly 120 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 4388Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 3305Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 4193Spiral11 million ly
apartComa PinwheelSpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4473Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3063Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3305Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 4193Spiral11 million ly
apartComa PinwheelSpiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4473Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3063Spiral12 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).