IC 3625
IC 3625
IC 3625 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 1.0 billion ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 1.0 billion years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3625 as it looked roughly 1.0 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 3602Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 3601Elliptical89 million ly
apartIC 3240Barred spiral90 million ly
apartIC 3621Elliptical97 million ly
apartIC 3686Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3187Barred spiral120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3601Elliptical89 million ly
apartIC 3240Barred spiral90 million ly
apartIC 3621Elliptical97 million ly
apartIC 3686Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3187Barred 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).