IC 3832

IC 3832

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
481 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 481 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3832 as it looked roughly 481 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 3843Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 3916Spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 3879Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 3863Spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 3975Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 3919Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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