IC 3696

IC 3696

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
17.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3696 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 3715Barred spiral5.1 million ly
apart
IC 3655Spiral5.2 million ly
apart
IC 3692Spiral6.5 million ly
apart
IC 3721Spiral6.8 million ly
apart
IC 3784Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apart
IC 3745Lenticular9.4 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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