IC 3867

IC 3867

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
859 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
167k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 859 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3867 as it looked roughly 859 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 3886Galaxy22 million ly
apart
IC 3881Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 4148Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 4128Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
IC 4139Elliptical42 million ly
apart
IC 3931Barred spiral42 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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