IC 3751
IC 3751
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
732 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 732 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3751 as it looked roughly 732 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 3746Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 3922Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3904Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3786Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3893Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 3922Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3904Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3786Barred spiral40 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).