IC 3820
IC 3820
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
17.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3820 as it looked roughly 570 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 3816Elliptical2.8 million ly
apartIC 3772Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3772Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apartIC 3774Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4104Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 3405Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical50 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).