IC 3576
IC 3576
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
31k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3576 as it looked roughly 47 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 4580Spiral1.8 million ly
apartNGC 4343Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 4698Spiral3.1 million ly
apartIC 3218Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 3328Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4434Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4343Barred spiral2.7 million ly
apartNGC 4698Spiral3.1 million ly
apartIC 3218Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartIC 3328Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 4434Elliptical3.8 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).