IC 3597
IC 3597
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3597 as it looked roughly 321 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 3581Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apartIC 3472Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3661Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 813Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3377Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3472Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 3734Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3661Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 813Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3377Barred spiral14 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).