IC 3528
IC 3528
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
640 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 640 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3528 as it looked roughly 640 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 3505Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3603Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 3613Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 3379Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3378Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3629Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3603Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 3613Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 3379Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3378Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 3629Barred spiral28 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).