IC 3689

IC 3689

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
929 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
168k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 929 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3689 as it looked roughly 929 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 3683Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 3789Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 3815Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
IC 3677Elliptical53 million ly
apart
IC 3860Galaxy55 million ly
apart
IC 3884Barred spiral56 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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