IC 3772
IC 3772
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
566 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 566 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3772 as it looked roughly 566 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 3816Elliptical8.6 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3940Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3820Spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3940Barred spiral50 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).