IC 3778
IC 3778
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
466 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 466 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3778 as it looked roughly 466 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 3832Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3888Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4048Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4001Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4003Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3888Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4048Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4001Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4003Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral26 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).