IC 3657
IC 3657
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
301 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
20k ly
across
17.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 301 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3657 as it looked roughly 301 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 3692Spiral4.6 million ly
apartIC 3655Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 3696Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3715Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3655Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 3696Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3715Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred 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).