IC 3646
IC 3646
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3646 as it looked roughly 306 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 3644Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 3618Lenticular1.9 million ly
apartIC 3590Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3620Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4555Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3618Lenticular1.9 million ly
apartIC 3590Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3620Spiral7.6 million ly
apartNGC 4555Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 3498Spiral8.8 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).