IC 3944
IC 3944
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 3944 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 4096Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4099Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral61 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).