IC 3890
IC 3890
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
749 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
17.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 749 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3890 as it looked roughly 749 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 3904Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 3746Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4152Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3922Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3746Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4152Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3922Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral30 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).