IC 3599
IC 3599
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3599 as it looked roughly 290 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 3536Spiral5.1 million ly
apartIC 3641Galaxy5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4565CSpiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 4565BBarred spiral9.6 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3646Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3641Galaxy5.8 million ly
apartNGC 4565CSpiral6.9 million ly
apartNGC 4565BBarred spiral9.6 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3646Barred spiral16 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).