IC 3911 NED01
IC 3911 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
167k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3911 NED01 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 3911 NED02Elliptical2.6 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical110 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).