IC 3713
IC 3713
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
331 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 331 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3713 as it looked roughly 331 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
NGC 4655Elliptical5.4 million ly
apartIC 3758Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 3717Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3758Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 3717Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral21 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).