IC 3516

IC 3516

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
319 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 319 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3516 as it looked roughly 319 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 3450Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
IC 3515Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
IC 3454Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 3421Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
IC 3406Barred spiral9.3 million ly
apart
IC 3407Barred spiral9.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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