IC 3525
IC 3525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
380 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 380 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3525 as it looked roughly 380 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 3698Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3489Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3694Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3440Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3284Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3199Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3489Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3694Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3440Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3284Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3199Barred spiral23 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).