IC 3843
IC 3843
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
489 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 489 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3843 as it looked roughly 489 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 3879Barred spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 3863Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 3919Elliptical9.3 million ly
apartIC 3828Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 3832Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3863Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 3919Elliptical9.3 million ly
apartIC 3828Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 3832Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral12 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).