IC 3557 NED01
IC 3557 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
317k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3557 NED01 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 3557 NED02Galaxy33 million ly
apartIC 3422Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 3788Barred spiral75 million ly
apartIC 3246Barred spiral96 million ly
apartIC 3728Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3905 NED02Barred spiral120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3422Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 3788Barred spiral75 million ly
apartIC 3246Barred spiral96 million ly
apartIC 3728Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3905 NED02Barred spiral120 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).