IC 3656
IC 3656
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
16.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3656 as it looked roughly 401 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 3654Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartIC 3662Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 3671Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3761Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 3533Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4789Lenticular39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3662Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 3671Barred spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3761Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 3533Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 4789Lenticular39 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).