IC 3677

IC 3677

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
877 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 877 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3677 as it looked roughly 877 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 3789Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 3683Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 3815Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
IC 3689Elliptical53 million ly
apart
IC 3886Galaxy54 million ly
apart
IC 3867Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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