IC 3899
IC 3899
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3899 as it looked roughly 1.0 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 3994Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 3744Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 3944Spiral65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3817Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 3744Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral61 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 3944Spiral65 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).