IC 3774
IC 3774
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
580 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 580 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3774 as it looked roughly 580 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 3772Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3820Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4123Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3820Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3816Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4123Barred spiral55 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).