IC 3927
IC 3927
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3927 as it looked roughly 227 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 829Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 4877Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5051Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 4924Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 4903Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4280Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4877Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5051Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 4924Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 4903Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4280Barred spiral32 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).