IC 3960
IC 3960
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 3960 as it looked roughly 306 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
NGC 4817Elliptical4.2 million ly
apartNGC 4876Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4889Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4819Spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical8.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4876Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 4889Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical6.6 million ly
apartNGC 4819Spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 4895AElliptical8.5 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).