IC 3898
IC 3898
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
1.3 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
17.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.3 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3898 as it looked roughly 1.3 billion 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 3610Barred spiral260 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED02Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 3278 NED03Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral280 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3911 NED02Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 3278 NED03Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral280 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).