IC 3895
IC 3895
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3895 as it looked roughly 340 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 3921Spiral6.5 million ly
apartIC 3897Spiral6.6 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3717Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3758Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4655Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3897Spiral6.6 million ly
apartIC 3783Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3717Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 3758Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 4655Elliptical17 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).