IC 3835
IC 3835
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
360 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 360 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3835 as it looked roughly 360 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 3850Elliptical6.9 million ly
apartIC 3920Elliptical9.0 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4704Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3920Elliptical9.0 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4704Barred spiral24 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).