IC 3729
IC 3729
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
506 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 506 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3729 as it looked roughly 506 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 3843Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3828Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3863Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3879Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4004Elliptical26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3828Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3863Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3879Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4004Elliptical26 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).