IC 3951
IC 3951
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
934 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 934 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3951 as it looked roughly 934 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 3950Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4125Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4141Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4058Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3860Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 3871Elliptical34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4125Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4141Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4058Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3860Galaxy34 million ly
apartIC 3871Elliptical34 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).