IC 3950
IC 3950
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
921 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 921 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3950 as it looked roughly 921 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 3951Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4058Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4141Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3907Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3871Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4058Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4141Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 3907Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3871Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral25 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).