IC 3885
IC 3885
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
910 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 910 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3885 as it looked roughly 910 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 4037Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 3771Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 3844Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical70 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical70 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral85 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3771Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 3844Spiral45 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical70 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical70 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral85 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).